[Rhodes22-list] Raising the Mast without a Crane

[Mary Lou Troy]

We tried it once ourselves and couldn't do it. We were too short to 
get the mast high enough by walking it forward and not strong enough 
to do it from the cabin top without walking it forward. We then had 
the yard where we were keeping the boat do it and they did such a 
scary job of it that we plunked down our money with Stan and have 
been happy campers with the GB mast raising system ever since. Not to 
say you can't do it without the system - just reporting why we 
couldn't. And yes, we could have engineered our own system but at 
that point we decided to pay for one that was already engineered to 
the specifics of this particular boat.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD


At 08:50 AM 7/19/2007, you wrote:
>Hello Rhodies,
>
>I plan to raise my mast shortly and I don't have a trailier or mast raising
>system from Stan.  Don't intend to do it enough to justify the cost.  Here
>is what I plan to do, please let me know you opinions.
>
>1.  Attach the mast to the tabenacle.
>
>2. Connect the aft stays.
>
>3.  Connect the aft lowers.
>
>4.  Attach an extension line to the spinnaker halyard to server as a point.
>Bitter end of halyard is tied off at mast base.
>
>5.  Begin raising the mast by lifting from the back of the boat.
>
>6.  Walk forward to raise the mast higher.  2nd person on ground in front of
>boat begins pulling on extension to halyard.
>
>7.  Once mast is raised, connect lower forward stays to stabilize.
>
>8.  Finish by connecting side upper stays and forestay.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Hank
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