[Public-list] Re: up the mast

[Jack Vanderloo]

Two more points:

a) "flat" line reference is to 1" tubular webbing
http://store.karstsports.com/1tubweb.html

b) I have secured two folding mast steps 3 to 4' down from masthead
http://www.sailnet.com/store/item.cfm?pid=20004

Jack

Gordon White wrote:

>     If there is a dead-easy way to hoist yourself up the mast, 
> single-handed, please tell me about it. I have done it, by myself, tied 
> to the pier, but it was not easy. I went up the mast of a neighbor's 
> 40-footer last year in a bosun's chair to retrieve a halyard he had let 
> fly and with two people on the deck it was still no picnic.  I was the 
> lightest of the three of us. One cranked the winch and one handled a  
> safety line (jib halyard) and it was a considerable effort. Now, I'm 71, 
> the grinder is 67 and the safety man is 80, so maybe we are just too 
> old, but  if there is an easy way I need to know  about it.
> 
>    When I went up solo I used the jib halyard as a safety and the main 
> to take a 4-part tackle up the mast to which I attached the chair. The 
> tackle, even 4-part, was not all that easy to manage while holding on to 
> the mast with my legs and holding on to the  safety line. The 4-part 
> tackle two-blocked somewhat below the masthead, so I had to unhook and 
> re-set it. This was all in perfectly calm water, as I said, tied to the 
> pier. I don't think I could have done it under way in any kind of a 
> seaway. I think it would be as safe or safer to have steps and the 
> safety line.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> - Gordon White
> 
> Brigadoon II
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Jack Vanderloo
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