Rigging standing

[rob.lovelace]

Bear,
how do you drop / stand the mast?
re; it's easy

regards
Rob

[lockie]

I started a thread on the outboard lifeline issue on a Cruisers Forum. Some interesting and sobering perspectives were thrown up, highlighting the extreme difficulty of getting back on board if you're soloing and the boat keeps going. Moral of the story: organise your tethers and jacklines, and always clip on so that you stay on board!

cheers, lockie

http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f13 ... 54281.html

[Phillip]

Come on Greg, have to stir you lot up to start voyaging!

I would not use the hack saw on the wire but on the fittings.

Now as to getting back on board at the bow foreward of the stays.
I posted in a previous subject on how I hope to have got around this problem.
I also posted drawings showing how to set it up.

The MAIN thing is that I HAVEN'T had to use my method in anger!

Phillip
Leekes Beach, Great Keppel Island.

Leekes Beach, Great Keppel Island TODAY! Seaka is behind the second yacht from the right.

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[Dolphin]

Your right Phillip, there's too much armchair cruising. Felicite's getting slipped on the 16th and 17th of June. Then there is no excuse. I'm looking forward to it. Hope Wayne J can make it too. We're getting Bears diesel going so he's got no excuse either.

I'll tell you another story about how to get back on board. Get comfy, this will take a while!

In 83 I went sailing to Tahiti and we, the skipper, a younger girl and a mate, intended to cruise back through the Islands. We were on a Bowden designed steel 43 foot cutter. We'd done a lot of work on it for the owner including cutting out plates of steel that were rusted to the point of leaking.

Becalmed over the Taupo Seamount that is 2/3rds the way to Lord Howe Is. we decided to go for a swim. The water was so clear we had a lure out about 50m behind the boat and you could see it hanging below the boat as clear as a bell. I thought it was a perfect picture to take of the hull suspended in what looked like mid air.

I entered the water where another crew member handed my camera to me and I looked around and there was a HUGE tiger shark behind me. Well, I climbed the side of the boat in about 2 steps, mask snorkel fins camera and all in a flash. All you need is a bit of adrenalin.

We NEVER went swimming at sea ever again after that. We tried it a few times and whenever you make a splash it attracts everything within Coo-ee.

Greg.

[Phillip]

Greg,

Know that feeling, I was visited by a very large female white pointer while decompressing at Seal Rocks after a scuba dive.

We had to wait, but when our time was up we both exited, my great buddy going for the ladder but I went straight up over the O/B motor, so quickly, that I was able to help him into the boat!

Phillip
Leekes Beach, Great Keppel Island.

[Shaun]

Greg, was your huge tiger shark male or female?, we need to know these important details!

[Dolphin]

I couldn't tell, I hadn't completed the "Shark Sexers Course" then.

[Phillip]

Well Shaun and Greg,

We had some 5 minutes in the water with that white Pointer, so plenty of time to determine what the sex was.

My PADI Shark Diver Specialty is no longer current, but I can put you onto a PADI instructor who took over my course and during that you will certainly be able to learn how you can quickly see what sex a shark is.

See, the world is simple!

Phillip.
Rolling and rolling at Leekes Beach, Great Keppel Island.

[rob.lovelace]

man this thread has gone way off topic,

how do you lower and stand the mast on a top hat?

I was thinking of replacing the rigging with it still standing

[Dolphin]

Rob, I think its better to have some topics, or something, running even if it goes off topic as that is what the forum participants want. Its better than weeks of nothing, don't you thnk?