Bob planed the mast a bit more and then made wooden handles for sandpaper for a belt sander to manually sand the mast. I'm impressed as this was coarse paper and really took a lot of effort. Three or four passes of a 37-ish foot mast is quite a distance!
Most of this was done while I went to feed the cats, check email, and get some take-out lunch for us.
Then, using an air compressor, we blew out the grooves.
Afterwards, we filled in at least 1/3 of the grooves with a thickened epoxy mixture. My camera was wanting new batteries, so no pictures. I'll take a couple of pictures of the same thing today though... lots of opportnities to do so, except to find the time. I can't quite keep up with making the filling compound to Bob's application of it... So It Goes...
