Don’t Bring Me Down...
If you are an ELO fan, you will know this song as one of their best. I mean this in a figurative sense, and not a literal one, because the mast definitely does need to come down so I can complete some essential projects and repairs; I just hoped it would go smoothly, which is quite optimistic where boat projects are concerned. Since I have never lowered a mast on a Laguna 26 (or any boat for that matter!) I spent quite a lot of time looking at YouTube videos and lurking on boat forums, trying to get a handle on how the process works and what can potentially go wrong. One of the first things I learned is that it’s best to do this when the boat is out of the water and on a nice stable platform; and of course I ignored this first recommendation (at my own peril) since this was not really an option for me seeing as I don’t have a trailer to haul the boat out onto. I would just have to pick a calm day and hope some huge motor cruiser didn’t come along and generate a large wake during t