Re: M_Boats: raising the mast fore OR aft

[Richard Lane]

On my 23 I made a board that inserted into the bow pulpit having a boat 
trailer roller on top. I would slide the mast forward making sure that I 
had a restraining line around it running thru the tabernacle. By sitting 
on the base of the mast I was able to align the thru hole with the 
tabernacle slot and insert the thru bolt. I even made an electric winch 
system to raise the mast but sold Sadhana before I grew old and feeble 
enough to need it. Check with "Bones".
Dick

Wayne Yeargain wrote:

There is a real advantage to raising the mast from a fore position enabling
the use of the boom as a gin pole, but I think
it would be hard to get the mast in position to pin..
As I see it the mast would have to slide foward and rest on the bow pulpit.
The distance from the mast bracket to the tip of the bow pulpit
is very short on a 17, about 6 ft,  leaving about 15 ft cantilevered out.
How do you get it out there and still hold it with such a short lever arm?
Maybe it takes two one on the boat & one on the ground with a ladder?.
I have to rely on me to raise it.
Any body out there tried it single handed ?

Wayne M17 #204

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Subject: M_Boats: raising the mast fore OR aft

 

A message to those who have done it both ways,
is it not easier to raise the mast up towards aft direction using the boom
and the topping lift  OR the forward direction. It would seem less energy
   

be
 

required and there would be better leverage by using the boom method but I
don't see it mentioned in the archives.


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