[Rhodes22-list] cross over stays

[Leland]

Gary,

I lived in Salisbury for ten years so I'm very familiar with Snow Hill.  We
joked that it was the only hill on the flat Eastern Shore and was only a
hill when it snowed.  My Ocean City biker "gang" would routinely stop at
Public Landing to use their portapotties.  I always thought it would be a
great place to have a Rhodes, and now it is!

There currently is a Rhodes owner in Ocean Pines.  Don't know if they're
still there, but there once was one on the north end of Assawoman Bay.

Congratulations!

Lee
1986 Rhodes22  At Ease
Kent Island, MD



foredeckguy wrote:
> 
> Mary Lou, 
> Thanks for your quick reply. We're in the middle ground between O.C. and
> Chincotegue on Chincotegue Bay, great spot. 
> I don't have the mast crane or use extenders on the lowers. Using the
> trailer winch, I am just looking to keep the mast from moving side to side
> while raising it.  What I am doing is never going to be as elegant as the
> mast crane. I am just looking for a safe way for one person to raise the
> mast on Coquina.    
> 
> Mary Lou Troy-2 wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Gary,
>> Another Rhodes on the Eastern Shore! My husband Fred says he used to 
>> go crabbing at Public Landing. (I said where the heck is Public
>> Landing?!)
>> 
>> Not sure but in the reference you saw, Stan may have been referring 
>> to the use of the aft lower stays in one version of the General Boats 
>> mast raising system. We have that version. The aft lowers go to the 
>> winch end of the crane (the other end of the crane fastens to a piece 
>> of starboard on the cabin top.) The forward lowers get extenders and 
>> help steady the load on the way up or down (mast starts from or 
>> lowers to a crutch on the stern rail). The effect is crossed stays. 
>> The aft lowers going forward to the crane and the forward lowers 
>> pointing aft as the mast goes up or down. Newer versions of the 
>> system use a line from the winch to a bail on the mast. I believe the 
>> forward stays still get extenders. The aft lowers would just get 
>> attached and wouldn't come into play except when the mast is vertical.
>> 
>> Mary Lou
>> 1991 R22 Fretless
>> Rock Hall, MD
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> At 09:43 PM 5/19/2009, you wrote:
>>>My '79 Rhodes Continental has a conventional mast and is raised with 
>>>the boat on the trailer using the winch, extender pole and pulley to 
>>>lift the mast from the stern. I am usually short handed to launch 
>>>and retrieve. While searching the the archive saw a reference from 
>>>Stan about to using cross over stays to stabilize the mast during 
>>>raising. I have been all over the archive and can not find any 
>>>additional info about cross over stays.
>>>Gary
>>>s/v Coquina
>>>Snow Hill, MD (soon to be in the water at Public Landing, MD)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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