Ron:
My mast is stepped and unstepped every year by placing the strap under
my spreaders. A lot of other boat owners do the same thing. Largely
depends on where the balance point is whether this method works or the
need to tie off the strap to the gooseneck.
Last Spring, I watched a crew step a mast in a C&C 115 placing the strap
above the lower spreader and under the 'radar mount'.....it worked,
however, I would not recommend that. They got away with it maybe
because the mast was carbon fibre.
Too funny, after the standing rigging was secured, they looked up at the
strap for a long time wondering how to get it down.....this went on for
a long time and the next crew on the dock waiting to step their mast did
not seem amused. I was trying to decide if I should walk over and make
the obvious suggestion, i.e. someone has to go up the mast and untie the
strap. I decided to just watch the show and have another beer in the
cockpit.
A fellow lister here might have been part of the C&C 115 crew.....let's
see if he chimes in to explain if this is a common practice to use the
radar mount on the 115.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
On 2014/01/08 12:54 PM, Ronald B. Frerker wrote:
So does everyone usually slide the strap or line up to the spreaders
to lift the mast out?
I've been doing that, but the marina operator thinks that's wrong. He
suggested that I keep it a few inches lower and tie off the "tail" of
the line to the gooseneck. I tried that and the mast was completely
unbalanced and rubbing badly on the deck collar. I quickly dropped it
back and used the spreaders again.
I have to admit, I'm not sure the spreaders were meant for that load.
What do others do?
Ron
Wild Cheri
C&C 30
STL
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*From:* J.P. <ja...@jpiworldwide.com>
*To:* cnc-list@cnc-list.com
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 8, 2014 10:45 AM
*Subject:* Re: Stus-List unstepping mast
Hi,
I recently stepped, unstepped, and "re-stepped" my mast for my C&C 34 (we
did a survey, hauled the boat, refitted, and then floated the boat after
several iterations of work). I have also stepped and unstepped my Rawson
31' and my Ericson 35'. The C&C was by far the easiest. Because it
steps to
the keel through the deck, there really isn't much danger of doing it
"wrong" . Any decent boat yard with a crane (and I did two of my boats in
Dana Point where they had a good boat yard), will pull it for you... I
had a
set of saw horses set up to hold it while I refinished my mast
(stripped and
treated the aluminum and repainted, rewired etc... changed all the lights
and instruments). It only took me and the crane operator to pull the mast
for the C&C... the crane operator was good. I just undid the standing
rigging, he slipped the straps around the mast and pulled it out... I
steadied the end of the mast as he swung it to the saw horses.
One thing to keep in mind is that there are little oak wedges at the deck
plate. I refabricated mine to better fit the mast, I would suggest
checking
those every time you pull the mast.
JP
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