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Stupid Mast Errors

After just three day sails our main halyard is mangled. Turns out @sparcraft jammed the wiring conduit right up under the sheave on our brand new mast so it deflects the halyard and chafes it. Looked like end of season. We were gutted. No way to fix without unstep, but see next tip.

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GUILHERME SALGADO

On this page there’s no link to the next tip that it mentions, so I guess I’d have to scroll through all tips ordered by date to find the one next to this?