[Rhodes22-list] Mast raising land or water

[Arthur H. Czerwonky]

Mike,
You know that GB now uses a bail, attached to the mast front, rather than attaching the crane to the aft lower stays.  They might send you one if you ask.  I can assure you it is kinder to the spreader bracket, which will become distorted with repeated use, until it has to be replaced by Dwyer at $40+.
Art


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Cheung <hmcheung57 at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 30, 2010 10:05 AM
>To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Mast raising land or water
>
>
>Bob,
>
>Very interesting innovations!
>
>Any chance of photos of the bow rail modification?  With the PVC tube
>extension for supporting the furler, I'm having trouble visualizing how you
>attached the mast base to the receptacle you describe.  Do you have a hole
>drilled through the PVC extension so that it's held at a fixed position with
>the same bolt that attaches the mast base to the bow rail receptacle?  
>
>Sorting out which of the bundled stays are the two I want (the aft lowers)
>and getting them fed to the winch correctly can take a few moments of
>looking befuddled, but doesn't seem too bad.  Your bail and rope set up
>would leave that until the mast is up when it should be much easier.  I
>would "miss" the redundancy that using the two aft lowers provides.  If one
>were somehow to fail or not have been securely attached to the mast crane,
>the other should really have no trouble supporting the mast.  Do you leave
>the aft lowers attached when you trailer?  That would save a bit of rigging
>time.  That does beg the question - why not leave the aft lowers attached
>and use the forward lowers to bring the mast up?  The forward lowers have to
>be detached anyway or you wouldn't be able to lower the mast.  
>
>Thanks for the ideas and I really would love to see pics of your bow
>receptacle.
>
>Mike
>
>
>
>
>Bob Keller wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I have raised and lowered my mast so many times over the past 8+ years of
>> owning the boat that I do it without having to give it much thought
>> anymore.  I think I'm probably better at putting the mast up and down than
>> I am at actually sailing the boat!  The three biggest improvements I have
>> made to the whole exercise and trailering (aside from a new trailer which
>> makes all the difference) is (1) the mast bail set-up so that you can
>> attach the winch to the mast using rope instead of having to disconnect
>> the aft lower shrouds.  Doesn't sound like much but it is a big time and
>> hassle saver. (2) Had a mast receptacle welded on the bow rail so that the
>> bottom of the mast slips in and locks for trailering and (3) using zip
>> ties exclusively for holding down the mast and stays while trailering.  I
>> use three different sizes and have some real large ones that I use to hold
>> the mast at the bow and stern and to hold the stays.  They really don't
>> cost much and are a big time saver.
>> 
>> Bob K
>>  
>> 
>
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>Mike Cheung
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