Allyn,
Where is your boom connected?

What you have here it the top piece of plastic is for the boom and the bottom piece is for the front of the pop top to attach to.  The top piece should have a pin in the hole, just like the one you have in the bottom piece.  The pin allows you to put the boom in different positions using the holes on the left side of the mast while the pin on the pop top holder allows you to put the pop top up and down using the holes on the right hand side.  It looks like right now you are using the bottom piece to hold the top piece in place?  They should move independently of each other. - rob

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From: Rhodes22-list <rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org> on behalf of Allyn Baskerville <allynb at adsne.com>
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2020 10:55 AM
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Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Boom Connection to Mast

Someone made a comment to me that my boom and sail are too far apart, so I did a little investigating. There is a hard piece of black plastic connected to the mast track with a hole drilled off center. There appears to be a corresponding hole (albeit significantly larger) drilled into the mast. This will raise the boom up a couple inches (and probably keep the pop top from hitting the bottom of the mast), but I have no idea what kind of hardware goes into this hole. Am I missing something here? Thanks