Ep34 - See what happens WITHOUT Tef-Gel on your rigging hardware

The mast, boom, and davits we removed shortly after we hauled ROAM out of the water. They have been sitting on foam blocks since then waiting to reach the top of the priority list. Our rigging makeover is a multi step process that starts now. The first step is to remove every piece of hardware so that we can determine what news to be replaced and what can simply be cleaned and serviced and put back in use. Our rigging inspector suspected that Tef-Gel was not used when the stainless steel screws were put into the aluminum mast, and sure enough, many of the screws wouldn’t budge. With the help of a manual impact driver and hours of pounding, we managed to remove every piece of hardware from the rigging. While Shawn was busy persuading the hardware to come off, Geri was inside discovering salt crystals and stagnant water under the cabin sole. A huge clean out was definitely in order before we could figure out where it all came from.