With the boom off the mast, able to measure the rake of the mast by hanging the 18" cresent wrench from the main halyard. Hard to get a solid measurement as the boat pitches, but appears to be beetween 10" and 14" of rake aft. This is considerably more than expected. The rake places additional stress on the aft part of the mast beam, the part that is less well supported.
Slacked the shrouds to address the rake.
Opened up the Furlex to access the embedded rigging screw. Quite a bit of work as the lower bearing assembly was stuck in place. There are three items that must be aligned in order to slide the lower bearing assembly up the furler foil. They are: the wire terminal at the bottom end of the jibstay, the body of the rigging screw, and the bottom threaded part that connects to the toggles connected to the stemhead. Each of these has two flats; the flats must be aligned. Finally got them aligned after a good bit of work. Slacked off the backstay to within one or two turns of maximum extension. Tightened the Furlex rigging screw to within one or two turns of minimum extension. Rake reduced to 7" to 10". Fully greased the Furlex at all four locations.
In the midst of adjusting the shrouds by measuring the distance from the main halyard sheeve to the toe rail on either side, the connection between the tape measure and the main halyard shackle opened up leaving the mast halyard at the sheeve. Climbed the mast with Hank Greene's help, Hank tailing the jib halyard as I had to ascend on the spinnaker halyard to retreive the main halyard. Takes about fifteen minutes to get up and down.
Apparently, will need to cut the jibstay, move the wire terminal, and add a toggle to the backstay in order to get the mast vertical.
Tuned the shrouds. The port side of the port appears to be higher than the starboard side or the port side shrouds are longer. Had to take extra turns on the port side upper and forward lower shrouds to get the mast standing straight and equally tensioned per the Loos gauge.