[quote=flyingfishguy]I ran into the large opening on the base of the mast too. I filled it with a load of silicone because it would have let a ton of water into the mast in a very short time as the unsealed space was probably 2 square inches! Anyway, my mast base did have 3 rivets holding it on. One in the front, another was the lower rivet on the cheek block and the third was the lower rivet on the main halyard jam cleat. I removed the cheek block, halyard jam cleat and, with the front rivet already sheared off, the base pulled out relatively easily. I cleaned it up, siliconed everything I could find then reinstalled and sealed everything. No problemo, about 2 hours of work. 24 hours to cure the silicone and I'll be sticking the mast in the pool to check for leaks. I'm definately going to look for a way to open a drain hole on the mast, just in case.[/quote]
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