Right of Passage?

Roadking Larry

Roadking Larry

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Mar 30, 2013
700
Allied Seawind MK II 32' Oologah Lake, Oklahoma
Last saturday I had the headboard shackle on my main fail.



Lesson learned: inspect the shackle once in a while (derp)

Marina charges $200 to run a guy up the mast for such things.

I made an effort to retrieve the halyard with various poles and hooks with no success.

One of the members of the sailing club offered to go up for me. I decided it was my screw up my job.



Wasn't all that bad except when the wind set the boat to rocking and it would snub up hard against the dock lines.

Not to bad for a middle aged fat man with a crippleing fear of heights.
 
justsomeguy

justsomeguy

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Feb 20, 2011
8,062
Island Packet 35 Tucson, AZ/San Carlos, MX
Your first time doing anything is a rite of passage, kinda. You owe beer.

I thought this thread was gonna be about colregs!
 
Roadking Larry

Roadking Larry

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Mar 30, 2013
700
Allied Seawind MK II 32' Oologah Lake, Oklahoma
"You owe beer"

Oh, that's a given. :D

Also need to find out what brand bosun's chair it was so I can get one like it if I ever need to go up again.
 
Charlie Jones s/v Tehani

Charlie Jones s/v Tehani

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Mar 1, 2012
2,182
1961 Rhodes Meridian 25 Texas coast
Two things.

You remember the old fashioned potato mashers the looked like a wire bent back and forth? I've used one of those, tied to a different halyard, to hook a wayward halyard aloft. Might not always work, but worth a shot.

Second thing- years ago I stopped USING a shackle on the main. I use a Buntline hitch, and leave it attached always. Hasn't failed yet, in many years

And one additional- you are braver than me- I'd have paid the $200 rather than go aloft:D
 
Roadking Larry

Roadking Larry

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Mar 30, 2013
700
Allied Seawind MK II 32' Oologah Lake, Oklahoma
Might have been worth the $200 to not have to listen to my wife when she saw the picture posted on Facebook.
;)
 
Indysailor

Indysailor

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Oct 10, 2009
1,096
Catalina 27 3657 Lake Monroe
I've never been up a mast but rather had this rite of passage many years ago in firefighter training, going up a 40 ft. "church raise". This is not me, but rather shows a more old school (and probably no longer allowed) requirement, "up and over". I only had to go to the top, lock in and lean back no handed.




 
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