[Rhodes22-list] Your favorite way of pulling out mast step

Tue May 26 14:12:45 EDT 2015

Rotten wood in the mast step will do it, too.

Rick

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:24 PM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <
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> Brooks,
> I will jump in and tell you how I know . I have dropped my mast three
> times in 7 months since I hauled rhe boat out of a barn and restored it. I
> single hand everything and do not have a mast erection device. The first
> time I dropped it, I erected the mast for the first time in my driveway and
> when I let it down a side stay caught a extrusion. I was stuck with the
> mast half way up and down holding it over my head. As I tried to lift it
> back up the mast plate screws pulled out and it fell across the neighbors
> grapefruit tree. No damage to anyone or anything. That is when I expoxied
> the core, put on a sole plate doubler and screwed and lag bolted the mast
> step to the doubled and fiberglassed plate. Yes I have read everyone's
> opinion about three screws being adequate but 45 years of sailing and
> working on almost every ocean in the world have taught me to never expect
> regular and if something bad happens be ready. I want my mast to stay with
> the boat no matter what breaks or carries away.
> The next time I dropped it was while sailing. The launch atea was full of
> weekend warriors and my patience departed. I decided to derig it while
> floating around. All went well until I I slipped with the mast over my head
> and dropped it. I bent the stern rail and had no other damage. Everything
> else stayed where it was supposed to be.
> The last time I dropped it was while erecting it in a launch area parking
> lot. I stand under the mast and lift it with one hand, walk it forward and
> hold it / assist the mechanical advantage with a block and tackle hooked to
> the bow eye. A shroud got tangled at about 50 to 60 degrees up and as I
> slipped the rope to lower the mast it became to much to hold with one arm
> up over my and I dropped it, "semi controlled" as it bounced off my, head,
> shoulder and then hit the stern rail again. No damage and nothing hurt but
> my ego. I now coil or wrap  all the shrouds and lines with a breakaway
> rubber bands or tiny tywrap's so the ropes, cables and stays all stay in
> better order as the mast goes up and do not catch on every thing available
> going up or down
> All trial and error and finding trying to find the weak points before I
> hit more big waves and bad weather in the Sea of Cortez OR the Pacific. I
> trailer my boat all over, sail a few days a week and do everything single
> handed. I now have it configured that I can pull into a launch parking area
> and have it completely rigged and it the water in less than twenty minutes.
> Fred HaagPhoenix Az
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: 05/26/2015  8:08 AM  (GMT-07:00)
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Your favorite way of pulling out mast step
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> I like learning from other's mistakes - I make so many it's nice to avoid a
> few.
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> Several responses to the recent Mast Step Mystery suggest that pulling out
> mast steps is not  that uncommon but no techniques were described. Since a
> part of this activity frequently (all ways?) involves dropping the mast,
> it's one mistake I'd particularly like to avoid.
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> If all responses were of the form: "I saw one owner  ......" , we'd never
> know for sure it was you. Less self incriminating than the ever popular:
> "Don't ask me how I know."
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> Any interest?
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> Brooks
> 86/06 R22
> Cambridge, MD
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