Our forestay tang failure last year made me suspect all of the stainless on the boat.
The original mast-head has a 1/8 ths strap of stainless that is bolted onto the cast aluminum top. Both the forestay and the backstay hang onto this. While it looked fine, I didn't trust it so it was replaced with (2) 3/16ths straps. This allowed me to fabricate a simple way to attach my dyneema backstay and the Sta-Lok fitting for the forestay. All the hardware was replaced. The sheaves for the halyards were lubricated and new a new wire loom was installed.
The mast base was removed, polished and rewired. Here it is ready to receive the mast.
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