Masts come down for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes the mast comes down because someone doesn't do their tide height correctly or they don't check their chart closely enough, and end up running their mast into a bridge de-masting the boat which was the case for the boat you're seeing in this 3 part series.
Sometimes you have situations where people will leave their sails ready to go on the boat furled up, then a storm comes through and they unfortunately don’t take the time to take their sails down and stow them down below. In the case of this boat, that’s exactly what happened. They left the sails furled up, a storm came through with 140 miles an hour winds and it wound up ripping the headsail open, which then pulled the entire rig over and ran the boat alongside the dock doing a bunch of damage, not just to the rig but totally de-masting the boat. In this three part series, we’re going to be watching a mast being taken down by professionals on purpose so that they can do a total re-rig on a boat that has a mast that’s come down.
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