For anyone's information, the mast pivot screws right out of the mast foot. Since there is no set or plane to which you can fix a wrench or driver, I used a pair of vise grips.

I had a local machine shop fabricate a new tang and it was a 15 minute job to replace the tang and screw the pivot back into the foot.

Now to figure out how to replace the downhaul line. Anyone tried this? Mine is quite frayed in one place.

Jon Hamlet
Taipan #217