It has been a long stretch again. Continue to plug away and now have started to do set up for the second rig. Dix written directions are a bit confusing for me yet with some patience for me to get with the program was able to make forward progress. I also want to give a couple of end of season notes. First on the Interlux top coat (came with grip sand in it) really good stuff keeps you from falling, yet a bit aggressive takes skin off real quick and is very hard on any hardware that is on deck. I started to tie all hard ware up off the deck for any travel time on the trailer. I also was not happy with the performance of the bottom paint (also Interlux) does not hold up to any hit at all. I have two coat on yet wore through in the area where it sits on the wheel of the trailer. This is not a full up date for this second rig. More to come. I finally broke down and put the Kayak away for the season on December first. It is going to be a long winter!

I was not ready to put the jib in place came up with simple bungee to keep it from bagging around. The next two pics give you how I put force into bring the 4'' bend in the mast. I used the up hall line cleated into the cleat on the bottom of the mast. Note that I flipped my boom upside down and use the out board end thumb cleat to lock the line in place. Lastly just a one inch friction strap. The first two inches of bend in the mast come pretty easy. The last two made me a bit nervous the mast stood up to it and the final bend came in beautifully between the lower and upper shroud connection points. You will also note that I added a 3/4'' dia rubber plug on the bottom side of the outboard end of the boom. The interdeck grip was especially hard on that and the tiller extentions.

If you look close there is a green 5/32 line that I tied to the goose neck and ran over the top of the mast before lifting the mast to help sight in the amount of bend being put in the mast.

This is the port side of the shroud lines. The short (7'3'') on the star board side ended up way to long (my tape measure lied to me) so I have to go get a new eye on it.