In-step with un-stepping

[george copeland]

I ran a little search for information concerning the right way to take the mast down on my lovely Houdini. I found much about wiring a mast and some new-fangled religious exposition about tabernacles. But, aside from these ecumenical forays, I can find nothing about the proper order of relaxing stays and shrouds and the eventual lowering of the timber--and nothing of resurrecting the tree upon the completion of my next undertaking toward Houdini's ineluctable perfection. Avast ye lofty luminaries! Speak of the accepted and arcane protocol! I feel Ebb warming-up even now.