mast lowering

I lower mine with stern to pontoon / wall for good reason. My mast usually stays with base pin in for just the 30 min trip up river. So dropping down to someone on 'quayside' is an advantage.
Main thing we've found to help is to have a nice long plank ready to take mast for walking back. Saves that arm stretching to try and catch it as it 'falls' !
 
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You can buy some very nice halyard line these days.

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I JUST knew someone would remark about them. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

For those who don't know - they are temp 'winter' lines while proper halyards are in the wash ready for next season.

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Something may well break but that will not necessarily stop it falling. Mast in question fell, hit back of coachroof, and rails and still flexed enough to nearly kill someone. This was on a 24ft boat so rig was not especially big. Granted person who was hit was probably not stood in best place, but if you can minimise the risks.........
 
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There is an in teresting video on u tube. In fact there are a few. it shows a guy with a catalina 25 lowering his mast. I cant remember the full details. but what I do remember was that he used a length of what seemed to be 100mm drainage pipe, i suppose about 2.5 m long which as the mast came down he wedged into the companionway, to take the weight of the mast as it came down. To me this is the most critical time as the angle of forstay to the mast is too acute and any tackle ect to the forstay is less effective . having something to hold the mast stable at this point gives a little breathing space. from this position it should be easier to then just get a shoulder under the mast and lower it down. an adjustable trailer roller on the transom is also a good idea. much easier to then roll the mast forwards once disconnected at the foot.
Jack
 
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There is an in teresting video on u tube. In fact there are a few. it shows a guy with a catalina 25 lowering his mast. I cant remember the full details. but what I do remember was that he used a length of what seemed to be 100mm drainage pipe, i suppose about 2.5 m long which as the mast came down he wedged into the companionway, to take the weight of the mast as it came down. To me this is the most critical time as the angle of forstay to the mast is too acute and any tackle ect to the forstay is less effective . having something to hold the mast stable at this point gives a little breathing space. from this position it should be easier to then just get a shoulder under the mast and lower it down. an adjustable trailer roller on the transom is also a good idea. much easier to then roll the mast forwards once disconnected at the foot.
Jack

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Main thing we've found to help is to have a nice long plank ready to take mast for walking back. Saves that arm stretching to try and catch it as it 'falls' !

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Only advantage I could see with pipe is weight. But my plank has larger surface and kinder on mast anodising.
 
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