Pix from the mast top, who got em??

[Jackdaw]

First you gotta get there, and then you gotta pull out your camera!

Pictures from the chair at the top of the mast. Who's got them? Here is two to start us off. Beneteau First 260 and then the 36.7.

 

[Ralph Johnstone]

Our Mast is Taller Than Most .......................

................. as you can see by the edge of a passing plane's wing beneath the bosun's chair.

 

[Rich Stidger]

At the top h40.5 a few years ago, early Spring.

 

[Time Out]

Replacing the main halyard sheave on my Catalina 27 last summer.

 

[Kermit]

Pardon my ignorance...

At the top h40.5 a few years ago, early Spring.

Rich,

What's the horizontal wheel on the top of the cabin for?

 

[Rich Stidger]

What's the horizontal wheel on the top of the cabin for?

Kermit,

Very observant!!

Well, I have a number of low bridges in my area and so I made my mast retractable. The wheel is to raise and lower it.

Hmm, I sense that you are skeptical.

OK, I hesitate to admit this, but I run aground at alarming frequency. The wheel connects to a huge cable that lets me retract my keel when I find that it's length is too much for the current depth.

Still not buying it?

OK, it's early Spring, and the wheel was removed and stored on top of the cabin to provide more room to walk around in the cockpit.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

 

[joker460]

I only needed to get up to the Anchor light under my own power , no need to go higher. If I needed to , would I , Not sure:naughty:

 

[Kermit]

Kermit,
Very observant!!

Rich,

After posting the question I sorta figured out that it's the wheel wheel. But I'm not too upset that I posted the question. I loved your answers! (And you sorta had me going on the keel thing.)

 

[Kermit]

Here's my contribution. Not from the top, but of a chick on the top.

 

[MrUnix]

I only needed to get up to the Anchor light under my own power , no need to go higher.

If you went any higher than the anchor light, you would be out of mast!!! Hoping you were referring to the steaming light at about mid-mast

Cheers,
Brad

 

[tkanzler]

I'm afraid all I've got is from the other, uh-hum, end.

On my Hunter 340, in Cobourg, Ontario, CA.

 

[joker460]

@MrUnix,

You're correct, I should have said Deck light/Steaming Light. I change the anchor light when the mast is down, Much easier.

 

[whatfiero]

mast picts

no picts from the top either but when there's no wind and the crew get bored ( i wait and don't motor taught that from father) I hike up mast for drills

 

[RAD]

Last spring we did both my friends and my boats mast head lights,new windex and checked the rigging....the only pictures I forgot to take were of the mast head for reference....I think I'll head back up there this spring

 

[joker460]

@Rad

Ain't that cheating

 

[kmart]

From the Top

From this past summer. Fall River, MA
Mast Steps are the best!!!!

 

[Shell]

My video

 

[Shell]

Again

 

[Shell]

Mast Video

Was trying to embedded this link.

Just click


http://youtu.be/ystEhLgTFUg

http://youtu.be/ystEhLgTFUg

 

[dscribner]

I'm ALMOST at the top!