A riveting project

I have been making a few changes to the running rigging of the Islands 17 to make it a bit easier to handle coming in and out of the canal. 3 recent projects have been adding slugs to the sail, a fair lead for the jib halyard, and a topping lift. 

I had to try out the rivet gun for the first time, it was rather anti climatic. Figure out where I wanted the hardware, drill pilot hole, instsall rivet. But the results were clean! Now I can raise and lower the job without the block getting jammed.

With the topping lift and sail slugs dropping the main no longer means a mess of sail, and boom to deal with in the cockpit while bringing her in or out of the canal!