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How to "End for End" a Top Mast

By Steve Cockerill 30th September 2020

Bent top masts in the Laser®, now ILCA, are not fast - you loose leach tension which in turn effects your pointing ability.This video shows you how to check for a bent top mast, how to straighten it and then if you are convinced it is close to breaking, how to end for end it so you now have a new top mast. You will see from this video that I was pretty convinced that this top mast was ready for end for ending. The bend on it was quite extreme, which meant that I was going to have to...