I’ve been reading and researching a lot and settled on a DIY “Mast Mate” style method. I used 1” webbing doubled up using the Etrier ladder instructions and some cheap garden hose as foot steps. I still need to add another ten feet of rungs to make it all the way to the top from the bottom, but it’s looking like it should work.
I’m planning on using both a harness and bosuns chair clipped to two different safety points on the way up, a Prusik knot for ascending and fall arrest, and another halyard attached with my wife at the bottom keeping it tight and cleated. It should solve the problem of having to be hoisted and the slow tedious work of trying to ascend a rope.
I’m planning on using both a harness and bosuns chair clipped to two different safety points on the way up, a Prusik knot for ascending and fall arrest, and another halyard attached with my wife at the bottom keeping it tight and cleated. It should solve the problem of having to be hoisted and the slow tedious work of trying to ascend a rope.