Repair of the mainsail's twist into the mast.

Lifting the boat, I decided to remove the mast. Inspect and check the shrouds, fasteners, roller, spinnaker halyard, etc. In addition, it turned out that the running red-green lights located at the top of the mast were not lit. In general, there were reasons. The mast was removed quickly, and I unwound the sail when the mast was on the trestle. And, as it turned out, for good reason. A crack was found in the pipe at the bottom of the twist, at the tack corner. I had to disassemble the twist, fortunately it is not difficult. After removing the twist drum, at the junction with the "shtagpirs", the latter was broken. The mainsail twist shaft consists of sections approximately 170cm long, interconnected by inserts and rivets. I decided not to look for a pipe, but to make a new insert from a duralumin bar, connecting it to the rest of the tubes using a milled flange that follows the shape of the inner section of the pipe. It turned out not bad, it remains to collect all this in the spring in reverse order. There is only one tip - check the condition of the mainsail regularly, and preferably with the mast removed, otherwise one day the sail may not be removed... Yes, the Selden mast.