Trailor Sailors, Is There A Mast Raising Rig that can be fabricated for an O-Day 25 or similar swing mast model boat???
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It's already built into your boat
You can find it on this website at: http://www.odayowners.com/manuals/25mast/oday25mast.pdf You'll need a piece of 1/4" line to run from the shroud triangles to the boom end. Attach the main halyard eye to the boom end and cleat the bitter end at halyard winch or one of the cleats near the mast base. If the gooseneck is still running in the internal groove, (as opposed to a short section of external track), slide the gooseneck down to the bottom of the mast. Otherwise you'll need to find a way to attach the gooseneck at the mast base. The standard mainsheet tackle will provide enough effort to pull down the boom/raise the mast. After you have done it a few times with help and know what to look for, you can do it singlehanded.
You can find it on this website at: http://www.odayowners.com/manuals/25mast/oday25mast.pdf You'll need a piece of 1/4" line to run from the shroud triangles to the boom end. Attach the main halyard eye to the boom end and cleat the bitter end at halyard winch or one of the cleats near the mast base. If the gooseneck is still running in the internal groove, (as opposed to a short section of external track), slide the gooseneck down to the bottom of the mast. Otherwise you'll need to find a way to attach the gooseneck at the mast base. The standard mainsheet tackle will provide enough effort to pull down the boom/raise the mast. After you have done it a few times with help and know what to look for, you can do it singlehanded.
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Mast raising
I am very suspicious of any system that wants you to raise a mast forward to aft. You have a transom hung rudder. Use a mast up made in Oregon on the gudgeons. This will get your mast up about five to six feet above the cockpit. Next put two folding pad eyes at the edge of the cabin top in line with the pivot bolt, then mount two more folding padeyes on each side of the mast about ten feet above deck. Run a line from each pad eye down thru the padeye on the deck and tension one each on the port and starboard cabin top winches. Next you need a whisker or spinnaker pole. Attach that to the base of the front of the mast. Run your jib halyard to the outboard end. Next attach a line to the bottom outboard end of the pole and run down to a block at the jib tack fitting and then back to the cockpit jib winch.(this line will be refered to as mast raising line) Now the pole is not going to stay up, so put a set of lines port and starboard from the outboard end to the cabintop padeyes and tension so that the pole is straight up and down. Next make sure the shrouds are not tangled and the backstay is lose. Crank on the mast raising line until the mast does not rest on the roller of the mast up. Tension the lines runing back to the two cabin top winches until the mast floats in the center of the mast up above, not resting on the roller. After this winch on the mast raising line while watching the shrouds until the mast is standing straight up. Tension mast raising line until you can attach forestay. You are now done. Reverse process to lower except stand by the mast to guide into mast up as it gets close. Once you get used to the system you will like it and it works well. I use the same system on my ericson 25+ which has a thirty four foot long mast that is heavy. Let me know if you have questions. Ryan
I am very suspicious of any system that wants you to raise a mast forward to aft. You have a transom hung rudder. Use a mast up made in Oregon on the gudgeons. This will get your mast up about five to six feet above the cockpit. Next put two folding pad eyes at the edge of the cabin top in line with the pivot bolt, then mount two more folding padeyes on each side of the mast about ten feet above deck. Run a line from each pad eye down thru the padeye on the deck and tension one each on the port and starboard cabin top winches. Next you need a whisker or spinnaker pole. Attach that to the base of the front of the mast. Run your jib halyard to the outboard end. Next attach a line to the bottom outboard end of the pole and run down to a block at the jib tack fitting and then back to the cockpit jib winch.(this line will be refered to as mast raising line) Now the pole is not going to stay up, so put a set of lines port and starboard from the outboard end to the cabintop padeyes and tension so that the pole is straight up and down. Next make sure the shrouds are not tangled and the backstay is lose. Crank on the mast raising line until the mast does not rest on the roller of the mast up. Tension the lines runing back to the two cabin top winches until the mast floats in the center of the mast up above, not resting on the roller. After this winch on the mast raising line while watching the shrouds until the mast is standing straight up. Tension mast raising line until you can attach forestay. You are now done. Reverse process to lower except stand by the mast to guide into mast up as it gets close. Once you get used to the system you will like it and it works well. I use the same system on my ericson 25+ which has a thirty four foot long mast that is heavy. Let me know if you have questions. Ryan
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Making a simple task difficult
What is wrong with forward to upright? Don't knock it till you've tried it. The method suggested by Oday works well, without all the extra b.s. of poles and excess lines and fittings. It stays centered and in control. If you want to use a winch, you can run the mainsheet to the cockpit jib winch. The mast on my Oday 25 is 31 feet. No problem.
What is wrong with forward to upright? Don't knock it till you've tried it. The method suggested by Oday works well, without all the extra b.s. of poles and excess lines and fittings. It stays centered and in control. If you want to use a winch, you can run the mainsheet to the cockpit jib winch. The mast on my Oday 25 is 31 feet. No problem.
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Ryan
Mast raising
Not knocking anyone's mast raising system. There is more than one way to put a mast up. Just mentioning the way I do it, that works well for me with no rig modifications. Ryan
Not knocking anyone's mast raising system. There is more than one way to put a mast up. Just mentioning the way I do it, that works well for me with no rig modifications. Ryan
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