[Rhodes22-list] Mast raising land or water

[Andrew Collins]

Jim
I just lost the spreader bracket shims to old age, the boat is an 86.  
Since I noticed this just before raising the mast, I just replaced  
them with red rubber hose gaskets slit open. And slid into place. Have  
you or anyone else had to replace them, and what did you do?
Andrew
sv Carmen

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On Apr 30, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Jim Connolly <jbconnolly at comcast.net>  
wrote:

> I bought the bail.  It is inexpensive and speeds up launching.  I  
> did not damage the spreader brackets but did destroy the shims  
> between the brackets and the mast using the aft lower stays.
>
> Jim Connolly
> s/v Inisheer
> '85 recycled '03
>
> "Arthur H. Czerwonky" <czerwonky at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>> Mike Cheung
>>> s/v Muireann 1993/2008 Rhodes 22
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