The heel of the mast is an aluminum tab that was glued into a slot in a piece of yellow cedar, which was glued in to the base of the mast. A bolt will hold the mast in place in the mast step I described earlier, two angled pieces of aluminum. The holes in the step allow the mast to be raked fore or aft as may be necessary. If you have lee helm, you rake the mast back so that the centre of the sail lines up better with the leeboard, until you get a neutral or preferably slightly weather helm.
The cleats are screwed into the wood core. One is for the halyard, the other is for the downhaul. The black webbing on the spar is what I'm attaching the sail corner to.
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