[Rhodes22-list] Bosun's Chair

[Michael D. Weisner]

Your spider removal maneuvers must be a sight!  I can only imagine what the 
stink boaters must say every time they see you try to unbind the WindEx. 
Don't tell them what you are doing, let 'em guess.

Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
Nissequogue River, NY

From: "Charles Henthorn" <rexh at sbcglobal.net> Friday, August 10, 2007 3:43 
PM
> John:
>       I have the mast raising crane and used it 4 times already this 
> season.  Twice to get operational at home port, once on for a cruise on 
> Lake Michigan, and once just to tweak the fittings.   To some, raising and 
> lowering the mast may sound scary, but using a bosun's on my Rhodes as 
> tender as it is initially during a gust, really sounds scary to me.
>       For whatever method you use, I have found that just removing the 
> spider webs and the egg sacks you see doesn't rid your mast head of 
> spiders.   For spiders I have inserted some styrofoam in the top of the 
> mast and soaked it well ( besides spraying the entire area and windex) 
> with a spider pesticide.  At least for past two months it seems to have 
> kept the pesky little insects away and the windex free to operate 
> accurately.
>       The alternate to using the pesticide is to go out in a good wind 
> and tack but continue to a jibe and then another tack and another jibe to 
> twist the webs so tight (turn at least 3 circles) that the pressure of the 
> windex break the webs.  However, this is a temporary fix at best because 
> the next sail will require the same routine.   You must rid the masthead 
> of the spiders causing the problem before there is hope of a permanent 
> solution.
>  Rex
>
>
> John Lock <jlock at relevantarts.com> wrote:
>  At 11:17 AM 8/10/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>>All this talk of bosun's chairs has raised an interesting thought. IIRC
>>the R-22 has about 700 lbs of ballast a couple feet below the waterline.
>>The mast sticks up about 30 feet above the waterline. Might want to take
>>into consideration what your weight on the end of a 30 foot lever is
>>going to do to the center of gravity????
>
> Thought about that, but I'd heard others have done it, so it must not
> be a big problem. 'Course I'll wait for calm wind and water to go up.
>
> Cheers!
>
> John Lock
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> Lake Sinclair, GA
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