This is the best video I’ve seen on launching and I use many of the same techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo_YIzgMemA <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo_YIzgMemA> Pete WinterSky (Zimowsky) San Juan Islander lost inland - an old salty stuck in the sagebrush outdoors writer and photographer Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pzimowsky Twitter: @zimosoutdoors The Northwest Outdoors Journey: https://outdoorsnorthwest.home.blog/2019/03/13/the-journey-begins/ "We Can Not Control the Wind But We Can Adjust Our Sails"
On Jul 13, 2022, at 6:11 PM, Willy Gorrissen <gorrissen@hotmail.com> wrote:
I need guidance in raising and lowering the mast on my M-15. Every time I put my mast up or down it becomes a horror show. I only do it twice a year but still it should be easier than I am making it. I do raise the transom crutch to its up position and have the shrouds connected for raising and lowering. Also my wife helps by pulling or easing off the main halyard as the mast is raised or lowered.
My process is to raise the crutch, connect the shrouds, put the mast step in the deck house bracket. I then put myself half in the cockpit and half down below and lift as my wife pulls. Yet until the shrouds are tight there’s little control over where the mast might go. Lowering is sort of the opposite but the mast foot gets stuck in the bracket, the mast swings right and left and once it’s down it’s difficult to find a safe place to stand in cockpit and wrestle the mast forward. I feels as if I am going to fall out of the boat.
My wife is close to saying she’s not helping any more as she only sees disaster in our future. So any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks for any advice,
Willy Gorrissen Payette Lake McCall, ID M-15, 606
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