• Registered: 2013-02-14
  • Posts: 19

Topic: Steve Stewart's tablernacle

  • From: Petit Rocher NB Canada
  • Registered: 2009-12-15
  • Posts: 55

Re: Steve Stewart's tablernacle

Hey Gingerbread,
Check the May-June issue of Good Old Boat magazine. Pretty ingenious device for safely raising mast short-handed.

...)))) May the wind fill your sails and the sun shine in your face cool
  • Registered: 2013-02-14
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Re: Steve Stewart's tablernacle

  • From: Ottawa, On
  • Registered: 2005-03-10
  • Posts: 353

Re: Steve Stewart's tablernacle

I installed a Ballenger Spars Mast Step 2 seasons ago and it works unbeleivable

I use a pair of plates clamped at the base of the bast and the spinnaker pole as the rigid member, halyards to the top of the mast and lead the lifting line through a block at the stem fitting, back thru genoa car to primary winch.

If you just start the uppers, there is enough slack to raise and lower the mast while still providing lateral control.

This is a two person job, and it's always nice to have a third set of hands.

I will try to find and post some pictures in the near future

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