On May 17, 2012, at 6:23 PM, Jack Zukowski wrote:
I am afraid of losing the forestay and having the mast come down. I need to rig up some kind of safety between the mast and the forward cleat or bow rail so that I can safely get off the boat to install that forward pin.
Hello and Congrats on the boat, When stepping, I connect my forestay to the jib downhaul (clamcleated port-side midship), which runs through a small block at the stemhead (chainplate?). Holding the jib downhaul and cleating through the big step-ups, I feel reasonably confident the mast wont crash down. This approaches the truth of Jerry's infamous words that I recite when rigging: "It's easy; a ten year old girl can do it" - (http://www.msog.org/models/m15/m15_setuprig.cfm) Jeff Thorsett M-15 #102 "Scamp"