New Outhaul line for inside the boom - 2018

Here is\was our outhaul line in the sheave which is on the die of boom. 

This line, as you see, is too big for the sheave. It is not easy to work the outhaul. 

June 2018 - Currently in Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay Mexico

New line. See how much nicer it fits in the sheve. 

But it is heading aft and I think it should be heading forward?

 

 

 We did not stow the line well but we were messing with it.

Ooops! Looks to me like the outhaul block in the boom got put in backwards!

Shows the how the outhaul slides up the boom and is pulled back by the line.

 So, we, of course thought we could do this ourselves.

 What the heck? We had put a tag line on the stern end
 of the outhaul and pulled it through the boom. 
But it got stuck. And what is this hardware?

 Debbie likes rigging and is good at it. 

But we both tried to figure this out and to no avail! 

It was time to call a rigger 😰

So, first thing was to hold the boom up and away from the mast. 

That was done by using a harness we have for lifting our Achilles LSI-310E dinghy up on the side of the boat when we are using our stern anchor and for putting our Ocean Kayak Malibu Two kayak on the fore deck for night passages. That harness you see holding the boom up by the mast.This is Chava, our rigger.

For the end of the boom we used a strap attached to the shackle on the topping lift wire. 

We disconnect the topping lift from the end of the boom so we could get the end cap off. We moved the boom over to the starboard side and put a preventer on it.Then another line from one of the boom side pay day's to the solar panel support to keep the boom from going forward (to the bow once it is disconnected from the mask goose neck.)

 The end of the boom needs to come off.

 

 This is the sheave at the end of the boom that the outhaul rides on. 
We sprayed all the blocks with McLubeSailkote One-Drop. 

 The end of our boom.

  The end of our boom.

 This block hanging out of the stern end of the boom goes to the outhaul.

The topping lift line. It rides on a pin, not a sheave.

 First, to help the rigger, I loosened the screws on the front 
of the boom holding it on. I did not want any frozen screws
 to take up his time. Using an impact driver
 and glass hammer on the bottom screw.

There were five screws and no surprises, thank you.

Here's Chava, taking the plate off on the mast-side.

 Here is a good shot of our outhaul.

 We had to disconnect the Garhauer RIgid Boom VangRV-20-1SL from the boom also.

Great photo of inside the boom!

 All done but we may need to re-do-it. We will trim the line 
for length once we use the outhaul a few times.

Looks good, though.