Connie, My condolences for your mast.
I've managed to avoid "doing a job" on may mast over the years only through good luck and happenstance. For what it is worth re: wires in the mast: After I "wired" lights on my mast (made a base out of an aluminum door kick panel) I was amazed at how much noise that little wire made inside the mast during a windy night on board. In fact, I was so amazed. I spent the better part of the night marveling at the noise. When I got home I re-ran the wires through a thin walled pvc pipe (much lighter than the standard thickness tube) and inserted that up the mast. That too had some movement inside the mast and I wondered if it would also be noisy under some conditions. So, in keeping with the philosophy that if one aspirin is good, two would be better, I gilded the lilly and slipped foam insulating tubes over the pvc pipe. They are available in builder supply stores, weigh almost nothing, and snugged the whole works very nicely inside the mast. So far (four months), so good. Stan Winarski M-15, #177, Carol II _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
