Friday, May 17, 2013

After 4 days below the tropical sun of Cartagena, Colombia, we managed to have another rig back up on a nice Beneteau First 35s5.



"Oh La La" is a very well kept boat that had a turnbuckle failure in October 2012 and the mast snapped in two sections. The rigging was made out of Rod and we changed it to Dyform (Compacted strand wire) in order to make it simpler and more forgving for "on the field" installation. The owner decided to go ahead and repair the mast rather than buying a new one and we sent them a mast section with the help of Rig Rite who still manufactures this Isomat extrusion.

The boat is almost ready to go sailing, with a new set of rigging and deck hardware.