After confirming that I should no longer raise and lower the mast without help I turned to the C-22 Tech Manual and cobbled together Dick King's write up of George Gilson's A-Frame. I did modify the adapters for the lower eyebolt to match Jim's suggestions for an articulating connector:
The mast is currently up so, the first test of the A-Frame will be lowering the mast. Since I've never used an A-Frame, is there anything that I need to watch for or, is this going to be as simple as the various videos make it out to be?
A second question is that even with a "mast up" (in my case the Rudder Craft version) getting the mast up all the way up is a bear. How low can you have the mast above the transom and still be able to raise the mast using the A-Frame? Thank you in advance for your suggestions.
George
A second question is that even with a "mast up" (in my case the Rudder Craft version) getting the mast up all the way up is a bear. How low can you have the mast above the transom and still be able to raise the mast using the A-Frame? Thank you in advance for your suggestions.
George
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