MAST STEP

Here's the mast step being set up. Michael has devised a more complicated bit here than is necessary so that we can adjust the mast rake to muck around with a few things, but his standard plan has a very simple single timber arrangement.

Note the number permanently squirted in the hull. This is our "hull number" and I was trying my hand at stencilling signs: more on that later.

Of course when we replaced the bottom, we didn't replace the number!