E32-3 Time is Fluid (mast re-hab, part 2 of 3)

Next phase of the project was to replace lights and wiring. Most of that wasn’t very dramatic, thanks to the design of the Kenyon spar that Ericson used in this era. It is a beautiful design – there’s an aluminum sail-track that slots into the extrusion, and when you pull that track out from the bottom of the mast it exposes a built-in wire channel, the full length of the mast. No fishing wires through conduit or draping them down the middle of the spar for halyard to rub against. This...