Getting a Mast Up

Taking up the wood in my tabernacle

 Kat Boat suffers from a compressed tabernacle and some of the upcoming work is how to stabilize it. I'm not sure the reason precisely but the bolts are simply going through the beams that make up the ingenuous system of support. Originally the mast was to be stepped by hand but when Mike built the boat he came up with the winch system to make it far easier. Jim Michalak mentioned it in dispatches even.  We have some ideas on what to do and we'll see what form it takes. Leading the pack right now is metal plates to spread the load and stop the compression.

Joint separating and even the washer is compressing.

Work to do.