Commodore Nichols reported, "Yesterday, Ken [Kessler] and I removed the eight chain plates that connect the main mast shrouds to the hull. We cleaned and inspected each chain plate, and reinstalled them using 5200 as a sealant. We use nylock nuts on 22 of the 24 screws (West Marine only had 22 nylock nuts). Steve Alexander came by to install a new luff rope on the main sail.
The new sail slides that Steve installed have been tested on the mast, and should work better than the old ones.
The new mast step had been installed before the boat left Baltimore. Yesterday we performed a plumbob test to verify the
center of the mast partners to be the center of the mast step. The result seemed to indicate that the mast step is about a 1/4"aft, and about 3/8" to the port side of the partners. This small offset can be compensated by tuning the rigging.
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