I have completed maintenance on the Arctic King in preparation for winter. I replaced the support wires for the top-load wires of the antenna with Dyneema rope. This rope has a breaking strength of around 5 tonnes but I ran into some problems because of its elongation under load.
The tension on the top load wires is around 200kg (440lbs) and it was quite a formidable job to accomplish.
The photos were taken last night and it is quite tricky to photograph the full moon in the dark.
