Here's the mast step:

In stepping the mast, we just tucked the wires down into the hole until they came out the bottom, and moved on. Now, when it rains ( nearly every day lately in Maine), I'm getting an annoying drip into the cabin. I'm guessing that water is entering at the top of the mast where the halyard shiv sits and is running down the wires straight into the cabin. In hindsight, a drip loop in the wires lower than the height of the tube would have been a smart, that and a few wraps of rubber rigging tape where the wires poke into the tube.
The obvious thing would be to have the yard crane lift the mast just a foot while I make some adjustments, then lower it back down. However, they are "wicked busy" with a long line of boats that need launching so it could be a couple of weeks until they can get me in. At this point, I'm eager to get this fixed, but not desperate, we deal with the drip by putting a bucket under it which would take a month to fill.
I vaguely recall reading a blog post, or article where someone had a similar predicament as mine, and devised a way to safely lift their mast a few inches w/o a crane. Anyone else come across this???
Or does anyone have any ideas? Anyone know of any docks in midcoast Maine with large treelimbs overhead?? One issue that might be a showstopper is that I think the mast might need to go a little higher than the turn-buckles would allow, so they may need to be disconnected and the idea of disconnecting any of the 4 main shrouds while unsupported from above is not something I'd risk.
Unless there's a good safe solution, I'll likely wait for the crane, or call around to other boat yards in the area (all seem wicked busy right now) but the idea of pulling this off is interesting to me.
-Wishing the rain would stop in Maine..jeff