[Rhodes22-list] mast raising

[Ron Finelli]

As others have said - raising & lower mast with GB's mast raising system
really is easy.

Up until this year, I didn't have the mast raising system and found I could
raise or lower the mast with one other healthy man - it was helfpul to have
an extra person with the shrouds.  (I have the IMF main & GB furler).

Time either way is about 45-60 minutes.  If a person did it more often (I
only set up in the spring and take it down in the fall), I'm sure you could
get it to half an hour or perhaps more.

Ron Finelli
Minneapolis, MN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Morgan Daniels" <pungobean at earthlink.net>
To: <Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:57 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] mast raising


>
>    Hi,
>
>    Stan of GB asked me to write to the list to get an unbiased answer to
>    my question concerning raising the mast. How difficult is it to do
>    with the main, jib, and boom attached? It looks like I would be moving
>    a heavy piece of metal into place and then raising it up. Since I am
>    not the Arnold Sch. type it looks difficult even with the mast raising
>    device. I also would like to know if it takes under an hour to raise
>    the mast and launch, or retrieve.  I would be using the boat on Lake
>    Champlain, Long Island Sound, and the islands around Rockland , Maine.
>    Thus trailering to these spots and then preparing the boat is a
>    concern I have. Thanks for any help.
>
>    Morg
>
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