[Rhodes22-list] Mast raising land or water

[Mary Evans]

Mike,
You might want to check out Northeast Yacht Club...Lakeshore and 140 St.
My husband crews on a friends boat for races...He only drags me to race on 
occasion...the last time we had 8 ft waves in the race around the water crib 
!!
neyc.org is the web site.

Mary Evans
still a Rhodes wannabe
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Cheung" <hmcheung57 at gmail.com>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Mast raising land or water


>
> The little bungee's with the ball are a great idea!
>
> We trailer Muireann all the time (though I'm sorely tempted to get her a
> berth in Cleveland Harbor this season) and have been refining our trailer
> rigging technique.  We started out rigging her the same way Stan's crew
> rigged her when we picked her up.  Gradually we refined things to get the
> rig time down to under an hour.  We leave the mast crane on the boat when
> rigging for the road, leaving it attached, covering it with a canvas bag,
> and tying it to the front deck cleat.  We leave the upper shrouds 
> attached,
> coil them, and tape them to the spreaders.  We leave the aft stays 
> attached,
> coil them, tape them, and hang them over the top of the mast crutch.  But 
> we
> have been using bits of rope to secure the furled genoa, boom, and lower
> shrouds into a nice bundle .... your little bungees sound like a better
> solution!  Maybe even knock another five minutes off our rig times!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> Joe Babb wrote:
>>
>> Ken,
>> Sharon and I have raised the mast of Harmony over land, on water at a
>> dock, and on water at anchor in a quiet cove.
>> It's all possible.  All the things the others have mentioned are
>> important.  You might consider wearing a pfd over water just in case as
>> well as putting down the swim ladder (40 degree water, brrrrr).  I have
>> a system that works pretty well for me.  I have a small plastic box that
>> contains one of everything I need (clevis pins, screws, etc) that I keep
>> closed unless I'm removing a part.  I still need to attach some sort of
>> bobber to the box.  I keep spares of everything in a separate tool bag
>> that stays in the cockpit.  I have made an outline of the procedure to
>> refer to before raising and lowering.  We trailer sail, so we do this
>> quite a bit, but in the heat of battle I worry about raising the mast
>> without removing ALL the bungies I've used to hold the jib to the mast.
>> So a simple outline helps.
>> BTW, I've found a 1000 uses for the bungies that are made as loops with
>> a plastic ball.  You can get them in various sizes.  I use them to help
>> hold the jib and boom to the mast when we pack up to go on the road.  I
>> also use them to hold the backstays and main shrouds to the rear mast
>> crutch.  It makes a neat controllable coil.
>> Hope this helps,
>> Joe
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