[Rhodes22-list] Mast raising land or water

Mary Lou Troy mtroy at atlanticbb.net
Fri Apr 30 19:05:37 EDT 2010 

We replaced one this year. They do become brittle (probably from UV). 
Fred thinks he replaced it with a piece of Starboard but he says it 
might have been Teflon.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless (still on the hard but getting closer to launch)
Rock Hall, MD

At 05:52 PM 4/30/2010, you wrote:
>Jim
>I just lost the spreader bracket shims to old age, the boat is an 86.
>Since I noticed this just before raising the mast, I just replaced
>them with red rubber hose gaskets slit open. And slid into place. Have
>you or anyone else had to replace them, and what did you do?
>Andrew
>sv Carmen
>
>Sent from mobile device.
>
>On Apr 30, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Jim Connolly <jbconnolly at comcast.net>
>wrote:
>
> > I bought the bail.  It is inexpensive and speeds up launching.  I
> > did not damage the spreader brackets but did destroy the shims
> > between the brackets and the mast using the aft lower stays.
> >
> > Jim Connolly
> > s/v Inisheer
> > '85 recycled '03
> >
> > "Arthur H. Czerwonky" <czerwonky at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Mike,
> >> You know that GB now uses a bail, attached to the mast front,
> >> rather than attaching the crane to the aft lower stays.  They might
> >> send you one if you ask.  I can assure you it is kinder to the
> >> spreader bracket, which will become distorted with repeated use,
> >> until it has to be replaced by Dwyer at $40+.
> >> Art
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Mike Cheung <hmcheung57 at gmail.com>
> >>> Sent: Apr 30, 2010 10:05 AM
> >>> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> >>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Mast raising land or water
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Bob,
> >>>
> >>> Very interesting innovations!
> >>>
> >>> Any chance of photos of the bow rail modification?  With the PVC
> >>> tube
> >>> extension for supporting the furler, I'm having trouble
> >>> visualizing how you
> >>> attached the mast base to the receptacle you describe.  Do you
> >>> have a hole
> >>> drilled through the PVC extension so that it's held at a fixed
> >>> position with
> >>> the same bolt that attaches the mast base to the bow rail
> >>> receptacle?
> >>>
> >>> Sorting out which of the bundled stays are the two I want (the aft
> >>> lowers)
> >>> and getting them fed to the winch correctly can take a few moments
> >>> of
> >>> looking befuddled, but doesn't seem too bad.  Your bail and rope
> >>> set up
> >>> would leave that until the mast is up when it should be much
> >>> easier.  I
> >>> would "miss" the redundancy that using the two aft lowers
> >>> provides.  If one
> >>> were somehow to fail or not have been securely attached to the
> >>> mast crane,
> >>> the other should really have no trouble supporting the mast.  Do
> >>> you leave
> >>> the aft lowers attached when you trailer?  That would save a bit
> >>> of rigging
> >>> time.  That does beg the question - why not leave the aft lowers
> >>> attached
> >>> and use the forward lowers to bring the mast up?  The forward
> >>> lowers have to
> >>> be detached anyway or you wouldn't be able to lower the mast.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the ideas and I really would love to see pics of your bow
> >>> receptacle.
> >>>
> >>> Mike
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Bob Keller wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I have raised and lowered my mast so many times over the past 8+
> >>>> years of
> >>>> owning the boat that I do it without having to give it much thought
> >>>> anymore.  I think I'm probably better at putting the mast up and
> >>>> down than
> >>>> I am at actually sailing the boat!  The three biggest
> >>>> improvements I have
> >>>> made to the whole exercise and trailering (aside from a new
> >>>> trailer which
> >>>> makes all the difference) is (1) the mast bail set-up so that you
> >>>> can
> >>>> attach the winch to the mast using rope instead of having to
> >>>> disconnect
> >>>> the aft lower shrouds.  Doesn't sound like much but it is a big
> >>>> time and
> >>>> hassle saver. (2) Had a mast receptacle welded on the bow rail so
> >>>> that the
> >>>> bottom of the mast slips in and locks for trailering and (3)
> >>>> using zip
> >>>> ties exclusively for holding down the mast and stays while
> >>>> trailering.  I
> >>>> use three different sizes and have some real large ones that I
> >>>> use to hold
> >>>> the mast at the bow and stern and to hold the stays.  They really
> >>>> don't
> >>>> cost much and are a big time saver.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bob K
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----
> >>> Mike Cheung
> >>> s/v Muireann 1993/2008 Rhodes 22
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