Tonight the parts arrived from Nautos – USA for the boom vang. I took a few minutes to install the hardware tonight after work. The mast looks like it has a connection for the vang from before. The only part that doesn’t fit quite right is the curved key to fit in the boom. It is a little too large for the existing setup. I’ll keep looking for a slightly smaller key to replace it with (they are cheap). I got the rope as a remnant at Defender Marine over the weekend.
![Boom vang installed on the O'day 22. The blocks are from Nautos and are laser replacement parts.](http://www.curtishome.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/VangInstalled-300x128.jpg)
![Where the vang connects to the boom. The key is a little large for the slot - I'll keep looking for a slightly smaller key](http://www.curtishome.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/vangTop-292x300.jpg)
![The vang attaches to the mast with a line looped around the mast (and run though an eye strap on the forward edge of the mast)](http://www.curtishome.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/vangBottom-300x242.jpg)
Hey. What do you use the small block on the mast for? Right side of the last picture. Have one my boat. I’m new to sailing.
I don’t think I used it for anything. It may have been for a halyard, but the boat had blocks on the deck and the halyards were run to the cockpit. I found a lot of extra blocks that had been added to the boat that I didn’t use – things were added over the years and old items were never removed.