Jalani

Yes this mast is hardware central... unfortuneately the way it was when I bought the boat. The mast only has another season in it due to a lot of corrosion in the base and the mast is actually bent rearwards by 20mm when the diamonds are released.

The odd setup in my earlier pic you added to your post was only done today as an attempt to clear the side stays. I normally run the side stays in the bottom hole and the for stay in the top hole as in the attached pic.



Yay it worked.... cheers.

Another point to mention is the hounds that are on my mast are no longer made so god knows how old this mast actually is..??