Today, 2008:  I tabbed in the 2:1 shivs,

I joined the crane box to the cap,

(that is just the mocked up bit.  The structural lamination is curing right now)

and while those things were curing I did more destructive testing with the truck and then a 10:1 purchase with me hanging from the mainsheet.

I was curious how small the line diameter I could go with for the loup around the lashing point.  Good thing I did it here too, because the small dyneema, though strong enough sawed right through the carbon wall of the mast bit.  Basically, fill the hole as much as possible, because it spreads the load.  I’m comfortable with the final loup I made which ended up being about 9mm in diameter. 

  The last thing I did for the day, and probably the most important thing was to laminate a piece from my smoothie blender which I broke from over tightening.  I’ll have pics of that tomorrow.

-Ryan