Stepping the mast ...

 All the mast projects have been completed, and after one earlier abortive attempt (due to excessive swell), the day has arrived, the rain has departed and I had a small weather window of opportunity to get the mast back into an upright position.  This is how the day started:

I had a wonderful cadre of patient, masked and willing volunteers assembled to assist, and after a quick safety briefing, the adventure began.

Loren and I were able to get the mast up into the cradle, and then back into it’s retention baseplate.  After attaching the leverage pole and running the halyard over the pole and attaching it to the stemhead fitting, we were ready to actually raise the mast:

We had Loren cranking on the winch, Dean stabilizing the leverage pole and Marco & Craig handling the jib halyard & topping lift to keep the mast centered over the boat on its way up.  We had just started cranking the mast up when the winch gave way and started coming apart.  Thankfully, we were able to safely lower the mast back into the cradle.  After taking the winch apart, we found two of the pawl and spring assemblies had disintegrated; I had recently serviced and lubed the winch, so I assume it was due to the heavy load and the age of the winch.

So, moving on to Plan B!  Since the winch was no longer available to do the heavy lifting, we attached the mainsheet block-and-tackle assembly to the stemhead fitting and the halyard to the other end; I just had to hope that a 4:1 purchase would be enough to generate the needed force and that we wouldn’t run out of travel before the mast was vertical.

Let’s see if second time is a charm ...

Success!  Thanks Kristin and Amy for your additional support.  She’s a sailboat again!