[Rhodes22-list] Re: Mast raising

[Mary Lou Troy]

Marc,
We've lowered the mast at the dock and it has worked just fine but it seems 
to me your bigger problem is lowering the mast without your forestay. If 
you have a halyard and can tie it off, I suppose that would work but I'd 
have some extra muscle to help control everything. Don't foreget to unpin 
the pop-top from the slider and put the slider in the "up" position.

Good luck, hope there was no other damage.

Mary Lou


At 08:18 AM 4/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Marc,
>
>We just had Raven's mast down in the slip last weekend to replace the boom
>slide assembly. Went down and up without a hitch using the circa 1988 mast
>raising system. We were careful to try and keep the boat as level as we
>could during the lowering and raising process. Our system uses short
>stabilizing lines that run from the cabin top rails to eye straps that are
>about 6' up the mast. I made sure these lines were as tight as I could
>reasonably get them to minimize side-to-side movement. I'd recommend doing
>it in as calm conditions as you can find, as well. We had a few wakes come
>in that rocked the boat and made me a bit nervous.
>
>Mark Kaynor
>
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>Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 7:56 AM
>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Re: Mast raising
>
>
>Dear List members,
>    I had an unfortunate accident with my boat...she got loose in the slip
>and the forestay broke.  Has anyone lowered the mast with the boat in the
>water, or must I do it on the trailer?  Any tips about raising and lowering
>while in a slip? Thanks for your input!
>Marc Berson
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