Yep...in a previous thread Dave and/or Jerry said that level fore and aft is when cockpit seats are level fore and aft, so if you're doing this on a trailer or stands etc. just get the cockpit seats level fore/aft, that's what I did. I used the main halyard, with a pound or two weighting the bottom, and accounting for the slight clearance between halyard and mast at top (subtract that from your measurement from base of mast to hanging halyard). I think it would be really hard to do this on a boat in the water, since you have to be on it and move around a bit to measure this even if it's totally glassy and windless... cheers, John On 5/3/19 2:23 PM, Les Schuldt wrote:
I tracked down a calculator at: https://www.triangle-calculator.com/?what=rt&a=b%3D262+A%3D1&submit=Solve
Input: b=255 A=1
This is the mast height 255 inches (21’ 3”) and rake angle of 1 degree
The result is 4.451 inches. So if you float the boat on her lines and hoist a light line via main halyard with a weight tied to the bottom end (I use a crescent wrench), one degree of rake should leave the line about 4.5 inches from the after side of the mast near the base. If your mast is a different length, go to the website and plug in your numbers.
Les
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