Frozen hook on spinnaker pole - (not used in years!)



Cant get the pole off the deck - aluminum body , it looks like the slide is
steel; and I cant get at much of it. Tried various lubes, tried heating the
body of the pole around the slide, tried a hammer (there's an opening at the
very end of the pole that appears to give me access to the end of the slide;
I tried banging away at it with a long bolt and a hammer.

I don't have much experience with these poles (that's the idea here, to at
last use the damn thing) but I assume that the slide is ,was, spring loaded
, and that the opening at the end of the pole is, indeed , the end of the
slide - any verification of this would help -