Sunday, November 2, 2014

Major upgrades to Bellum

Saturday October 25, we took down the mast for major upgrades including



Washed all lines

installed new halyards, swapped red jib halard to become spinnaker halyard
Spinnaker halyard was shortened to become pole up

Extend back stay line, Updated Backstay adjuster blocks to harken blocks 308

Replace all boom lines

Installed Harken Mark IV Furler and SCHAEFER Halyard restrainer


Installed Lazy Jacks

Replaced Compass Cover Screw

Straightened anchor light

Replace mast halyard, electrical wires and coax and plugs

New antenna - problems - old was loose mast, new bad solder connection, short connector, used old connector

New wind instrument - Raymarine Mast Head Unit

mast top - tapped 10-32 instead of metric thread which was stripped.

reversed pole car up / down

Fixed mast head cover - new 10-32 screw

Put the mast back up Sunday, November 2 in cold weather.

Thanks very much for your help, James, Bill, Pierre and Armelle, Keith, Daniele and especially Norm for his relentlessness assistance in planning and installing the furler, PL259, demasting, masting and so much more.






Garbage on Sunday morning

 Disgusting garbage on Sunday morning