Reenie K

These are the pics of the boom crutch doing it's job. It supports the end of the boom without needing to use the mainsail halyard and will let me roll the sail up rather than removing it completely. We're getting there, slowly but surely. In the second picture, you can see the main halyard at the top of the boom - it's the white line going up at an angle. The advantage to the new system is that the boom won't swing from side to side, so I can make a sunshade or a full tent and use the boom as a ridgepole. Pretty neat for a wannabe engineer, huh?