Keen to garner any insights on how to thread fresh wiring through a stepped mast on a Campass 29.
Any advice/insights appreciated!
Hi Kebreda.
Do you have internal halyards?
I you want frustration and a waste if time,
climb to the top of the mast.
tie a fishing sinker to a strong line and lower it from the top.
It will jamb and wrap around everything in the mast including tiny rivets.
If you want to actually get the job done get an electrician's snake,
You will still need to go up the mast.
Feed it down, connect the wiring and haul up.
gary
Cough up, pull the mast out.
Wire it properly, make sure you have all the lights, instruments and antennae you want. Run some decent low-loss coax for your VHF thus potentially increasing your VHF range by a non-trivial distance.
Put it back in.
Anything you just "drop" down the mast will move around inside the mast putting long term wear on at least the top where it's hanging by it's weight, plus the misery to which Gary alludes (which you're obviously already contemplating).
If you don't have a plastic / aluminium conduit in the mast, put all your wires inside some "rope cover", run some 3mm dyneema down it and stitch it at the top and bottom. Then you fix the dyneema at the top and tension it at the bottom.
