[Rhodes22-list] mast raising procedures

[Peter Thorn]

Slim,

Ah ha!  There must be many versions of this equipment.  Raven does not have
8" extensions, but she does have a mast stabilizing triangulation device,
basically two lines with clips, which are set on an extention of the mast
bolt line on the grab rails and extend up the mast about 6' on each side.
Since the triangulation in on the pivot line, they don't loosen as the mast
goes up.  However, they do add extra steps, to install and remove them.
Thanks.

I still have the feeling I may be missing something.  What year is Fandango?

PT




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Slim" <salm at mn.rr.com>
To: "Rhodes" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] mast raising procedures


> Peter,
>
> The forward lowers should have the 8" extensions added and then connected
to
> their chain plates.  These help to prevent side sway in the mast as it's
> going up (or down)  As the mast gets higher, the upper shrouds take over
to
> prevent the sway.  Both uppers and forward lowers combine to prevent the
> sway.  That leaves the aft lowers available to hook up to the crane.
>
> I can see where your method (using the forward lowers to the crane) would
> certainly save some time, but it's not as safe.  I usually do this
procedure
> on the water, so any waves or rocking the boat would cause the mast to
sway
> from side to side, so I need to use the four shrouds to prevent that.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Slim
>
> On 6/10/05 4:37 PM, "Peter Thorn" <pthorn at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Slim and Bill,
> >
> > Thanks for posting the mast procedures again.  Now that I've tried it a
few
> > times, it makes a lot more sense and the reading is certainly a little
more
> > interesting.  However I was surprised to read the part about connecting
the
> > *aft* lowers to the mast crane.
> >
> > Raven doesn't seem to be set up that way.  On Raven, the forward lowers
have
> > fast-pins and all the other turnbuckles are fixed with ring-dings.  So,
I
> > connected the forward lowers to the crane and everything worked just
fine -
> > it's actually less work than you both describe.  The fast-pins speed the
> > connection from the crane hoist to the chainplates a little bit too.
When I
> > checked the rig tension with the Loos gauge everything was within specs,
> > except the forward lowers needed a little tightening as one might
expect.
> >
> > I know I'm pretty lucky that Mark and the other previous owners took
such
> > thought and care in setting up Raven quite nicely.  But I still wonder
if I'm
> > missing something:  why do the instructions call for connecting the
*aft*
> > lowers to the crane?  To paraphrase Rumsfeld "I don't know what I don't
know".
> > Does it make a difference which lowers you use?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > PT
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