Stepping up the mast and new wind instruments

Elise continues her recovery process after the Singlehanded Transpac. Since we have diagnosed the connector problems, we are working on fixing it (better waterproofing of the connectors for the small solar panels which are used throughout the year too and no connector, ie hard wiring of the large solar panel which I use only for events that will last for several days.

Elise now has a new set of wind instruments - but Serge in his zeal to clean the boat removed the masthead fly from the boat. I will have to go aloft and put it back in or get a new one and put it back in.

Jason sorting out wires

Getting ready to put the mast pin in

And it's in

Using halyards to step up the mast and Serge and Jason walked forward as the mast kept going up and up...I just took the slack off the halyards.

The boom is getting new rivets for the vang attachment point which nearly failed during the event (not a catastrophic failure as it is easy to run a line to get the vang up so I was just waiting. If it had happened during the event, I would have rigged up a line, and otherwise, will fix anyway now)

Then pinning the rig, taping up around the pins and go up for the masthead fly.