Ariosa, my comments.

Finally got around to all those projects that had not yet been done. US Spars finally got their act together and sent me all of the parts I ordered. The new operator / office assistant is really a Bain to customer service. I had always had great service until this order. I will now be looking at other manufacturers parts when doing my upgrade. It took 3 weeks and 6 hours on the phone to get the parts and I still don’t have the last invoice. I have finally installed a rigid boom vang and I am still undecided if it was worth the $500 it cost for all the parts. It is in and the old vang is in the locker. It was relatively easy to install, I already had the correct parts for the bottom of the vang but needed to mount the parts at the top. So Saturday it was some hand drilling with a brace and bit. The old parts came off and the new parts pop riveted into place. 

I will post a picture of the new vang soon.   

I finally replaced the locking intermediate pin in the helm lock today. It was missing when I bought the boat several years ago. I have been happy with just using the auto helm for the last several years. Now I seem to sail more solo and I work the boat better to set it up with the wind, balancing it to sail with a zero rudder angle. I am sure there is a great weather helm term for this, but a simple sailor it’s just zero rudder.
So off came the wheel and the key for the shaft. I took out the four Allen bolts holding the locking mechanism and took it done below to measure and fix it. The knob and locking screw is held in place by a small Allen bolt on the back side of the mechanism. I removed the small retaining screw and then back out the locking screw. A couple of quick measurements later the Dremel and I went to work cutting the shouldered area off a clevis pin that was the right diameter to fit in the lock.
A small bit of cleaning and the whole thing was ready for reassembly. It went together the first time and was mounted and the job cleaned up in a flash.