That's real similar to what I do, yeah. With one real clever refinement - the telescoping rear crutch! Hadn't thought of that. Great idea! Gets a good starting angle even lifting from pulpit (and this guy is lifting from forestay chainplate, even lower). Plus on an M17 with standard crutch location & angle (parallel with transom, attached to rudder gudgeons) the spreaders hit the crutch before the mast is slid far enough back to fasten to step. If the crutch were up like this example that would not happen. I think I will be modifying my crutch to be telescoping. That is really the clever bit here, solves two problems at once - spreaders hitting crutch and starting angle for raising. Thanks for posting this! cheers, John On 10/11/22 09:47, Jason Leckie wrote:
Hi John,
So your method is perhaps like in this youtube video?:
On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 9:38 AM sailhavasu via montgomery_boats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
I love that you sail the heck out of ol’44!!!! :-)
On Oct 11, 2022, at 9:33 AM, Jon Barber <brbrbarber@gmail.com> wrote:
One person mast raising.
I ditched the mahogany rudder and separate mast carrier in favor of the ruddercraft version with the telescoping mast raising pole. It stays in place permanently, as does a 3 part dinghy mainsheet attached to the bow. First I unship the mast from the carrier and extend it to full length. Then I lift the mast onto the raised carrier(it has a roller). I push the mast aft and make up the pin pivot at the mast base. The 3 part tackle is made up to the jib sheet and tensioned. The jamb cleat on the tackle holds tension. Standing on the seats in the cockpit I push the mast up and haul the slack. I get another bite and haul again. By this time I'm past the center of effort and the mast raises easily. A couple of turns on the jib winch and cleat. I go forward and pin the forestay.
I frequently launch first and raise later at my convenience. I feel it is safer to rig on the water instead of 8 feet up on the hard.
Once when I arrived at a bridge too early for an opening. I lowered the mast and went under. After passing the bridge I raised the rig and had a great sail on San Pablo Bay.
All is done singlehanded. I was using the gin pole method, but after seeing a video of a guy raising a mast on his Catalina 22 using this method I figured it couldn't be too hard to do ona 17. Fewer parts, nothing to stow, launched and mast up in less than 30 min.
Jon Barber Monty 17 Ol'44
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