For those of you up in British Columbia - I just wanted to throw out a couple questions regarding costs to do mast work.
It was my hope this spring to have the mast brought down so that I could bang off a few outstanding jobs. I need to replace the Uppers, replace a halyard, re-do all the wiring and re-bed the deck under the mast step where water is getting into the core (a common C-30 problem).
I received a quote from a local rigger (who has a very good reputation, and to whom I took an instant liking upon first meet). The cost for the job was waaaay beyond what I expected, or can afford. When I delved into the quote, I saw that about half of the bill was for time to drop the mast and time to put it back up. 4 – 6 hours labour to pull it down and 8 – 10 hours to put it back up (which included rig tuning time). All those hours made the task about $1600.00
I’m very much a hands-on person and do just about everything myself if it’s at all reasonable. In this case, I was planning on having everything prepped with the rigging – boom off, turnbuckles loosened, etc. and this was accounted for with the quote. He figured we could shave a couple hours off the time by me doing the prep. So call it 4 hours out and 8 hours in.
What am I missing here?!?!?!?! I just can't figure out why it takes so many hours. The lift tower and rigger shop are on site at the boat yard, so there is no travel cost.....and like I said – the rigger is a solid guy with a good reputation…but if it costs that much to bring a mast down, how do all those US East Coasters afford to do it annually??? Honestly, I was expecting that part of the bill to be no more than $500.00
It was my hope this spring to have the mast brought down so that I could bang off a few outstanding jobs. I need to replace the Uppers, replace a halyard, re-do all the wiring and re-bed the deck under the mast step where water is getting into the core (a common C-30 problem).
I received a quote from a local rigger (who has a very good reputation, and to whom I took an instant liking upon first meet). The cost for the job was waaaay beyond what I expected, or can afford. When I delved into the quote, I saw that about half of the bill was for time to drop the mast and time to put it back up. 4 – 6 hours labour to pull it down and 8 – 10 hours to put it back up (which included rig tuning time). All those hours made the task about $1600.00
I’m very much a hands-on person and do just about everything myself if it’s at all reasonable. In this case, I was planning on having everything prepped with the rigging – boom off, turnbuckles loosened, etc. and this was accounted for with the quote. He figured we could shave a couple hours off the time by me doing the prep. So call it 4 hours out and 8 hours in.
What am I missing here?!?!?!?! I just can't figure out why it takes so many hours. The lift tower and rigger shop are on site at the boat yard, so there is no travel cost.....and like I said – the rigger is a solid guy with a good reputation…but if it costs that much to bring a mast down, how do all those US East Coasters afford to do it annually??? Honestly, I was expecting that part of the bill to be no more than $500.00