So, trying to follow all the advise given above, I bought new upper and lower mast boom end caps, replaced the old corks with racket balls and used both pop rivets and pins to secure the end caps along with a little 4200. I've been up and running since the weekend before last. But I think it is...
OK, I have pop rivets, rivet gun, drill, new halyard end cap from intensity sail (...which is much beefier than the old one that below out. The rim that goes into the mast is substantially thicker. It looks like it can take a full squeeze of the rivet gun, but I'll heed Light and Variables...
Thx Beldar, and there you have it, I found a fragment of a pin in the mast when I got back and the holes for it in the halyard end cap were ripped. My guess is just old age.
Will 1/8" rivets do it?
I was having a great sail today and on what was going to be my last tack of the day to head in and my halyard end cap blew out and I had to paddle in. I ordered a new one and was wondering the best way to fasten/secure the halyard end cap?
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