Tabernacle

A horrible wet and windy day seemed like a good time to be in the workshop fettling.
Made the tabernacle, the two large brass plates top left, and the mast bearing rings that fit into the mast foot to prevent the pivot pin from wearing away the wood.
The three stainless steel tubes with the dome nuts are the mast pivot and the tabernacle fixing bolts. The two tubes on their own are for the second mast support for when the boat is rigged as a yawl rather than as a sloop.
The drawing below is the superseded earlier design.