MC: It depends upon the boat. With the Montgomery's, that is probably the easiest, partly because you can begin raising it by walking it forward in the cockpit. Doing that on the foredeck doesn't give you much space to work. On my Neptune 24, I do it the other way and use the boom as a gin pole. I rig a 4-to-1 block and tackle arrangement to the stern pulpit, run the line forward, put my shoulder under the mast to begin raising it, then pull on the line to get it all the way up, with the shrouds and forestay already attached. --Gary Hyde M15 #235 'Vanilla' N24 'Sailabration' On Sunday, February 8, 2004, at 06:45 PM, MC wrote:
In the parking lot, is it just as easy to raise the mast going forward to jib stay or is it done the other way sometimes?
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