Tony,

Your wife is really good to you or she just wants to go shopping with the girls because you're out having fun. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Measured a few masts at the training weekend here and found that to get complete clearance you need to have 310 mm from the centre of the lower hole on the AHPC hound to the centre of the Tee ball where it comes out of the mast. So much for my 240 mm estimate!! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Well, at least the diamond wires were made too long and not too short so it's back to the riggers tomorrow to have the wires cut and new lower terminals swaged with minimal damage to the hip pocket.

I also learnt from the guys here that if you put a knot in some spare 5mm shock cord then feed the Tee Ball re-inforcing plate onto the cord, feed both through the slotted hole in the mast then once the plate is rivetted on all you do is pull the knot back out through the hole. So simple and neat <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />.

Regards,

Peter