Anyone know what this is?

[Kabadi]

 

[DaveS]

My guess is that it's part of a kit for climbing your mast. You put a taught rope through the cam cleat, stand in it then draw it up with your feet while taking your weight on another cam cleat or ascender attached to your climbing harness and / or bosun's chair.

 

[neil1967]

I'd take a guess at some form of mast climber - pull your feet up for going up, and squeeze the 'antenna' to release on the way down - assuming you're in a bosuns chair!

Neil

 

[Kabadi]

Thanks. That makes sense. On the other side there are some ptfe blocks which slide against the mast I guess.

 

[KAL]

Is it a mastaclimba? Is it for sale?

 

[vyv_cox]

It's a Mastclimb. Was produced up to about 10 (?) years ago. I have had one for around 20 years. Mastclimba is a very similar design.

This is mine with padding added.

 

[Kabadi]

Many thanks for all your replies. I'll give it a try this weekend hopefully.

 

[chasroberts]

Got one too! Never used though and the end I fitted mast steps.

Not a great piece of kit but helpfulif there are no other optiuons.

Chas