[quote=leeboweffect]Splashed my new to me '83 5.0 for the first time last Thurs.. I have a list of things to work out, but here is the the most serious one that I'm aware of. As the mast rotates, the shroud wires brush over the diamond wires' upper attach point. Obviously, metal to metal contact by itself is not good, but even worse, the shrouds are getting caught in the diamond wire fork and between the clevis pin head and fork. I had to manually clear this jam after nearly every tack and jib. I took the mast down today to check for damage to the rigging and it appears, to my amazement, that nothing is hurt. Comments, fixes etc. please. Surely this has come up before, but my searches turn up nothing. Note, my mast has the straight tubular spreader, not the triangular link swept back spreader.
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