Events conspired to us getting together to drop the mast a whole lot earlier
than I would have liked but in essence - the tides next week (the last week
before lift out) were not optimal for sailing (early and late), I had sailing
commitments elsewhere that would also chew up the time (two delivery trips and
a duty on the first day of the lift out) and the weather was on the turn. I
had originally scheduled next Sunday for the mast drop which would have
allowed today and or tomorrow for sailing but look at it... disgusting...
...and this was my fall-back day.. also disgusting..
...so enough's enough - the mast came down today - and on a fairly blustery day yesterday I took off the sails and boom..
Then today - I borrowed Mylor (the club launch) and took Smithy, Rod and I out to Sparrow and did the drop itself. No need to go into huge detail (it's all covered on my mast drop/raise page [clicky] if you're interested) but once again it was a faultless drop - it takes longer to connect all the ropes, halyards, and the A frame, than the drop, which literally takes just minutes...
She's all ready to come out in a fortnight, but first I have some sailing on other peoples boats to do, not the least of which is a trip on Smithy's GP14 tomorrow!