Robert splashed Sparky late yesterday , here are some shots.
Robert splashed Sparky late yesterday , here are some shots.
Touching up the pad spots
Now that's a sweet shaped hull!
Ok, My question here is ... did a crane lower your mast?
To error is human
To Sail is divine... Book of French
Nope , we did it with a block from the cross member of the travel lift.
Mast
Ok, how about some details...for the slow... rookie.
I can not lock onto a visual...
block as in block and tackle?
To error is human
To Sail is divine... Book of French
Notice,hanging from the cross-member.
You make a strop and tie the ends to the moving block , the strop rides up and catches below the spreaders and haul away . Keep a line on the base of the mast for control.
You can do the same thing in a slip with the halyards from 2 neighbor's boats , makes the ends together and fasten to the strop and haul on both halyards together ( make sure you have their permission ).You only have to lift a foot to get the cables clear then lower away while the base of the mast is being walked forward and some one in the cockpit catches the top of the mast as it comes down.
There are lots of ways to raise and lower a mast without need of a crane.
thought i would drag out this old topic.
when you were using the block and tackle, did you get a sense of how much the whole mast weighs? ~80 lbs? I think I am going to need to unstep the mast and I am sitting on the hard already. I wonder if it is even feasible to concoct a frame high enough to rig a block to lift up the mast (like the block and tackle when Robert splashed "Sparky" and rigged her).
Any thoughts?
The yard wants to charge $250+ (!!) for a one-way trip (stepped to unstepped, or vice versa). hoping to get away for significanly less.
-km
aka, "sell out"
S/V Beyond the Sea
C&C 35 mkIII
Make a set of shear legs and do it yourself.I would say the mast is all of 80# or more depends on hardware and blocks, etc.
Hey! This is the same boat that got unmercifully battered by that evil Vanguard in the hurricane only about a month ago. What happened?
Old pictures !
It wasn't a Vanguard afterall but a newer 1970 somthing Pearson.
Mrgnstrn,
The mast on 113 weighs in at just over 100 lbs. We wish you the best of luck and take notes and photos. I'm a year behind you too!
My yard informed me today that it is against my "dry-storage agreement" to unstep the mast without a "certified rigger" present.
what a bunch of crap! $250+ for a one way trip is outrageous.
I am going to have to call them back and talk them down a bit.
-km
aka, "sell out"
S/V Beyond the Sea
C&C 35 mkIII
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