Northwest Potters: Inochi - mast base assembly

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"Comet," a WWP15, and "Windsong," a WWP19

"Inochi" (P19 #611)

All of Inochi's masthead lines run aft using the set-up shown here. I don't know who constructed it; it was like this when I bought her. Inochi is a 1990 boat, and uses the older single boat mast step. The assembly is constructed out of 4 pieces of scrap 5/32" (?) aluminum and 16" or so of aluminum angle iron, cut in to 4 lengths, and lots of screws.

Four lines can be handled, with two cheek blocks each on the forward and aft faces. From here lines are run outboard to turning blocks on pad eyes on the cabin top thence aft to the cockpit. A low priority on my to-do list is to replace the outboard blocks with deck organizers.

There also are a couple of pad eyes on the port and starboard sides of the pictured assembly (visible in the second picture), to one of which my jiffy reefing line terminates.

The mast is in trailering position in these pictures. While it makes it a little harder to discern the layout, one can see that the lines need not be removed with this set up, as they would if the turning blocks were afixed to the mast step.

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Home [Previous Page]	"Inochi" (P19 #611) All of Inochi's masthead lines run aft using the set-up shown here. I don't know who constructed it; it was like this when I bought her. Inochi is a 1990 boat, and uses the older single boat mast step. The assembly is constructed out of 4 pieces of scrap 5/32" (?) aluminum and 16" or so of aluminum angle iron, cut in to 4 lengths, and lots of screws. Four lines can be handled, with two cheek blocks each on the forward and aft faces. From here lines are run outboard to turning blocks on pad eyes on the cabin top thence aft to the cockpit. A low priority on my to-do list is to replace the outboard blocks with deck organizers. There also are a couple of pad eyes on the port and starboard sides of the pictured assembly (visible in the second picture), to one of which my jiffy reefing line terminates. The mast is in trailering position in these pictures. While it makes it a little harder to discern the layout, one can see that the lines need not be removed with this set up, as they would if the turning blocks were afixed to the mast step.