Work on the spars continues, as well as other work that will be discussed in a subsequent post. For now, just spars. This post will have fewer words than usual, as the pictures speak for themselves.

Here is the stuff that goes at the top of the mizzen mast:

And here it is installed, including the sheave box that was not pictured above:

This stuff goes at spreader height:

This is the second time I’ve installed all of the mast hardware, but this time I cleaned it up:

One piece of the spreader-height hardware slips under the sail track, so I had to remove some track and take off a short length of the track riser:

For some reason the spreaders are mounted about an inch away from the mast, and there are two small pieces of wood (one on each side) that help maintain the distance. I made new pieces from teak.

Here are two views of the completed installation:

Here’s the winch for the mizzen main:

Here it is, installed, with the two other winches on the mizzen mast, as well as the cleats.

When the sail is on the track it needs to stay on the track, but there must be a way to easily remove the sail. I built the new track riser to be a little higher than the original. Below I’m epoxying two little pieces of bronze to a thin strip of scrap teak.

The piece on the left keeps the sail from sliding off at the lower end the track, but a pin can be removed and it can be rotated to allow sail removal.

The other little piece keeps the sail from coming off the track at the masthead:

The shoe at the bottom of the mizzen mast:

More hardware at “jumper strut” height:

The shoe at the bottom of the main mast.

The main halyard winch:

The track on the forward side of the mast to which the whisker/spinnaker pole attaches:

The gooseneck hardware, cleats, and genoa-halyard winch on the main mast.

Sheave box, two sheaves, and the rest of the masthead hardware:

Gooseneck hardware at the forward end of the main boom:

Outhaul hardware at the other end of the boom:

Whisker pole hardware:

There are still a few odds and ends on the mast hardware (mainsail track on the main mast being one). That said, all that hardware and the booms and whisker pole being out of the basement has opened up lots of space in the workshop.