Thanks David, that rigging looks top notch. Shouldn't be long now, thanks for sharing. From your longtime fans, stay safe we love y'all.👍🏻💕🐾

@OutChasingStars

Жыл бұрын

Really happy with how the rig ended up! Tim was a super help!

Pretty nice having a clean dry enclosed space to rebuild your mast, haha. Nice episode, thanks for doing this.

@SailingSarah

3 ай бұрын

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A most enjoyable and instructional video! I’m getting excited to see you back on the water with all the upgraded fittings and components installed. Best of luck to you!!

@OutChasingStars

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! We're really excited to be back on the water with all the upgrades too! 😄

Well that's exciting to hear you're going to Nova Scotia. I serve the Navy there for 12 years and my wife and I were married there. My wife is from coal harbor which is outside of Dartmouth Nova Scotia. We are also planning on visiting Nova Scotia this summer, the end of June and the month of July and some of August. You're also going to be traveling to my home province Prince Edward Island.

@OutChasingStars

Жыл бұрын

We really enjoyed our first trip there back in 2015 and are so excited to go back! We should be up there roughly the same time - arrive late June and spend a couple months before heading south to warmer weather again.

@julianbatcheler9970

Жыл бұрын

The channel ‘The Sailing Brothers’ have just been all up the coast around Nova Scotia… was fascinating. Looks so beautiful.

Thanks David safe travels to you and Amy

@OutChasingStars

Жыл бұрын

Thank YOU Tim! We're really excited to set sail again soon and feel better about the state of our rig!

Interesting video for mast conception. If you leave the VHF Antenna besides the masttop you will have deminished receiption and transmission of your VHF signal , Greetings from grey November Germany. Ok I just noticed you put it on top! Regards...

@OutChasingStars

Жыл бұрын

Fortunately, Tim wouldn't let me screw that up too badly! 😀

I had one of those tube radar reflectors. Went by the anchorage in another boat with radar and noticed no difference between boats with no reflector unit.

Lots of good projects done on the mast David. There is only one thing I would change and that it the plastic cable ties. The exposure to UV radiation will destroy them after a period of time and you will have to get up there to replace them. The VHF cable is one that migth be damaged from chafe if the ties desintegrate and the pigtail on the cable starts wobble in the exit hole in the mast. I have the same radar reflector os you replaced and checking my radar signature with a large ferry they confirmed I was very visible. Would be great to see the documentation rhat rendered the "one" useless. Liked the spinnaker halyard block, no shafe issue with that one. Instead of the main halyardswiwel at the masthead I would have tied the halyard directly around the pin, no corrosion doing it that way. Did it on my Belize43 and it worked just fine. Looking forward the see the mast in a vertical position again

@OutChasingStars

Жыл бұрын

Great to hear the bridge bumper will be an improvement! UV is certainly an issue for everything on the boat so in an effort to combat, we're actually pretty proactive about inspecting and replacing zip ties. I forgot to film this, but I did add a chafe guard on the VHF cable as well for the final install so that should hopefully help too. We had a lot of issue with twist in our main halyard when we first got the boat. Adding the swivel really helped with the problem.

@larssolem2507

Жыл бұрын

@@OutChasingStars ood to hear all solved. Maybe a warning to the viewers that the zipties need regular replacement. Looking forward to seeing Starry Horizonts back in her element!

Nice one.. a couple of foldable mast step near the top.. so you can stand up and work without arms above your head... so much easier to work.. something to think about..? 🙂

@OutChasingStars

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps something for the next time we pull the rig down. 😆 In the past, when I've worked on the tri-color while the mast was up, I used some spare rope to create 'stirrups' that I could use to get up a bit higher and that worked decently well.

@R.E.HILL_

Жыл бұрын

@@OutChasingStars they're actually easy to install rig up.. anyways, sounds like you have a system that works for you.

David: I need to replace my tricolor and this would be great replacement. The Optolamp Amazonia "5" website (Brazil) mentions the "Classic" and the "SW" version: which did you use? While you clearly explain and show you have 3 wires, the Optolamp website mentions using 4, 3 or 2 wires. Do you have a separate switch for the strobe, and/or anchor light? Did you get this from Nautos-USA? Sorry for all the questions.

@OutChasingStars

Жыл бұрын

Ours is the SW version which uses 2 wires and a 3 Position (On-Off-On) DPDT switch to control the Tricolor/Anchor functions. A separate On-Off switch is used for the strobe, but it requires the 3 Position Switch to be in 'Anchor Light' mode first. We ordered direct from Optolamp actually. They were quite responsive with questions/shipping and we could pay via Paypal.

Great video- congrats! It is looking nice. Can you please tell me brand and model numbers you used for: 1) coax RG-213, 2) PL-259 connector, and 3) tricolor masthead light? Thanks!!

@OutChasingStars

Жыл бұрын

We used Ancor RG-213 coax cable, Shakespeare Gold Plated PL-259 connectors and the tricolor/anchor light is an Optolamp Amazonia 5. Hope that helps!

@en8581

Жыл бұрын

@@OutChasingStars thanks!!!!

Not sure how i only just found you. But love your channel… You both think very much like i do and your advice is so helpful… i aim to get a yacht within the next two years and with a friend circumnavigate and generally explore. Would love a cat, but a good used monohull is more my budget. Hard to explain without sounding daft how much I’m on your wavelength… I like to do everything myself etc. One question on the using no rope on the anchor ‘chain’… i crewed for my cousin and he had rope at the end which connected to the boat… his rationale was: if he had to ditch the anchor in an emergency he could cut or chop through the rope. I was never super convinced. This is kind of a question? If you see what i mean. If you have all chain how do you ditch it in an emergency? Is there an emergency release? Hope to see you in some remote anchorage one day… where i will have an anchor heavy enough for an oil tanker.

@OutChasingStars

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's a good question. To me there are two "emergencies" that could happen with the anchor: 1) You need to ditch the entire anchor/chain immediately or 2) the windlass fails and the chain is rapidly flying out of the boat. Of the two options, I think #2 is the more likely scenario. And losing all our chain + anchor would be a BIG problem. So I have the same setup as your cousin with the bitter end of our anchor chain tied off to a pad eye. It may not be ideal to have to cut that in an emergency (though I have a feeling I'd be pretty motivated!) but I like having that insurance against losing all our chain + anchor.

“Riveting Shit”….. love it…Swivel on halyard ? I have seen to many challenges with twist in halyards with a swivel that we end up locking blocks to eliminate twist. This is on bigger cats though…. 12,14,16 mm halyards.

@OutChasingStars

Жыл бұрын

We had lots of problems with twist in our main halyard when starting out. Tried just locking the block but it wasn't until we added a swivel that the problem seemed to go away.

@TPLeary

Жыл бұрын

Halyard wrapped around a headstay is Preventable when the swivel must be secured as high and as close to the mast head as possible. If your sail has a short hoist a pennant can be placed between the head of the sail and the halyard swivel to get the swivel where it needs to be.

Is it safe/effective to grease/Vaseline the wires going into the mast conduiting?

@OutChasingStars

Жыл бұрын

One of the benefits of doing all this work with the mast on the ground is that it was really easy to run new wires through the conduits in the mast. If needed, I think I would go with a wire pulling lubricant of some kind. Get the right one and it shouldn't leave a residue behind.