In early fall of 2012 I unstepped the mast, stripped, sanded and varnished 10+ coats with Epifanes spar varnish. New installations included spreader boots, radar, deck lights, forward lights, masthead wind instrument, new sheaves in masthead sheavebox, and new masthead VHF antenna.
New Raymarine digital HD radar and LED deck lights:
Gold Canadian coin with the schooner BLUENOSE, and silver Greenland coin embedded in the maststep, followed by brief toast with Newfoundland vodka:
And the mast was restepped!