This morning when I visited Dan at Port Townsend rigging he had a shock for me. When he removed the roller furler drum to replace it with the new one he found two deep scores around the headstay which had been caused by screws being placed too deep during the modification work that had been done in Honolulu. The headstay, less than three months old, was a total write-off.
If I had opted for the repair of the old drum rather than total replacement the problem would not have been detected and the forestay would have eventually failed without a doubt. Dan had offered the repair option in good faith trying to offer me a way to hold down costs but he said that he has learned a lesson from this experience.
The photo shows the scoring of the wire. After photograhing the section of wire I returned it to Dan so that he could put it into what he calls his "scary box" with which no doubt he will terrorize his customers.
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