Last week the yard took down the mast for my first time with this boat. When we were taking it down we had a heck of a time getting that pin out where the backstay hooks into the hydraulic adjuster. All the shrouds were loose and the roller furling came off easily enough. I had the adjuster pressure completely backed off but there was still enough tension on there that we were afraid of damaging something if we forced that pin out. What we ended up doing was using the crane to put some rearward pressure on the mast to ease the tension on that backstay. It was still difficult but it did come out. I don't think that this is way it should be done but it had to come out. Now I'm thinking how difficult this is going to be when it comes time to hook it back up again in the spring. Is it suppopsed to be that tight? Has anyone else had this problem or did we miss something?