[Alberg30] Lazy Jacks - Going aloft

[John Birch]

I just use hard wax, like the harder candle wax type or better the canning / preserves wax and rub it on the track as high as I can reach and let the slides carry it up. If you are not taking your mast down each year - recommended for maintenance then at least one annual trip aloft is really necessary and on two halyards with a short nylon safety line around the mast above the spreaders. It should prevent you from falling more than 1.5 metres and should be sufficiently stretchy to take the shock load off so you don't break anything - hence nylon.

Even I have enough friends to crank me up the mast - the trick is to get them to bring me down again ; )

John Birch
9 Homewood Avenue
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
L8P 2M1

Tel: (905) 521-9166
E-Mail: Sunstone at idirect.com
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brian and Elaine Timmins 
  To: public-list at alberg30.org 
  Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 5:57 AM
  Subject: Re: [Alberg30] Lazy Jacks


  That is one of the things I'll be doing. UK suggested that there might be an alignment problem at the joints. I feel it has more to do with the webbing on of the slides since it's multiple layers of web, which might be hanging up on the rivets securing the track. UK has my sail for winter maintenance and cuningham cringle installation, so I can't look at the actual slides. I figure if it's anything more than lubrication, I should be able to spot it easily upon inspection.
    Do you (or anyone) know a method of waxing or lubricating the track, while the mast is up, that doesn't require going up the mast? I have issues with others not doing the right job and trust issues with others winching me up. (I have been dropped once and luckily caught myself by grabbing the upper shrouds above the spreaders. I never was and certainly am not now in physical shape to do an Iron Cross but I did that day!)
  Thanks,   Brian    Free Spirit    A30    #497
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: bluegoose 
    To: public-list at alberg30.org 
    Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 6:54 AM
    Subject: Re: [Alberg30] Lazy Jacks


    Have you tried running an old wax candle up and down your sail track? I had that "slow" problem until I waxed the sail track and now it slides very smoothly.
    Frank
    Bluegoose
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