Oh yeah....duh....those were pre-disaster pictures. Hope all goes well with the rebuild.
Encouraging photo follows. http://www.sailorgirl.com/assets/blueh2o.jpg
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Oh yeah....duh....those were pre-disaster pictures. Hope all goes well with the rebuild.
Encouraging photo follows. http://www.sailorgirl.com/assets/blueh2o.jpg
Mrgnstm,
Rules be rules.
I have seen boat owners do some very stupid things on their own , saw a guy release all his stbd shrouds then move to the portside and so did the mast . Right into a recently restored 1956 ChrisCraft . He thought the compression post was part of the mast and would hold it up.
It is an easy job , but I'm a rigger every day , for an accountant or public defender it may be too much and the yard staff doesn't know your skills.
Today I rigged and moved several 3x6 x30' mahogany timbers ,up 22' and down into the schooner we are building. They weigh 400 lbs. Did it by myself with a chainfall and a strop. Had a volunteer hanging on a tagline for effect.
Yeah, rules are to follow, but i just wished that you could request a waiver, or varience. After all, I have a BS in Mechanical Eng and a MS in Eng Science. I would hope that i could outsmart my own mast and do it safely. but alas.
I wonder if you could get by with a Professional Engineering Certificate?
well, another few hundred into the hole in the water (or on land as it may be.
darn.
doesn't this exchange here BEG the discussion of a tabernacle? (not talking bout the hinged step)
If what I understand is that the yard will charge $250 to yank the mast and another $250 to put it back - why wouldn't you motor in under the lift for the bottom job, or park for the winter, whatever...
with your mast already down?
How much more than $500 would you be willing to invest in a system that takes care of raising and lowering your own mast whenever you want to do it?
Or would the jerks at the yard charge you a 'corking fee' for lowering it yerself?
I think I'm going to talk with Ballenger on this subject again.
$250 is very steep for a mast pull even if it was round trip , $500 is robbery !
You guys at the top of the Bay are getting ripped off. I'd find another yard if it were me .
yes, a tabernacle couldn't possibly cost more than $500 (plus crane fees).
but to install that, i think the mast has to make at least one trip (down, off the mast step).
I agree, I would have loved to unstep my mast out in the bay prior to getting pulled for the winter. except that all that has already happened. I am already on the hard, on stands, and under the "rules" of the agreement.
double darn.
and thank you Mike, for agreeing that I shouldn't have to pay for the rigger's kid's college bill, now that i have my own kid's college bill to worry about (baby #1 due in february.)