{"id":1330,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:15:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:15:38","slug":"leaks-via-mast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/leaks-via-mast\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaks via Mast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p> Hi Steve, Good articles on leaks&#8230; <\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ve never had mast collar leaks&#8230;but what I do have is rain water getting into the mast, I guess through the halyard exits etc., which accumulates in the bilge&#8230;any suggestions as to how to cure that kind of leak?? Cheers, Alan  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p> What we do on all our boats is put a dam at the bottom, above the deck, via a trap door in the side of the mast. This catches about 95% of the rain\/spray. &#8211; Steve<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Steve, Good articles on leaks&#8230; I&#8217;ve never had mast collar leaks&#8230;but what I do have is rain water getting <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/leaks-via-mast\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-rigs-and-rigging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36498,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/36498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}