E32-200 Incremental Mainsail improvements

My boat came with a set of new-ish crispy Dacron sails.

The broker who joined me and the seller on the sea trial was enthusiastic about helping up on the cabin top to "jump the halyard" as we raised the main sail. "Good Man" I thought. Good man who was helping to gloss over the situation where the plastic sleeve at the hole where the halyard enters the mast had come loose.



I spent some time carefully measuring and after a time...