How does a bosun's chair work? Just hook yourself to one end and pull on the
other? Don't you need some purchase and some kind of ratchet? You can't use
an internal main halyard then, right??
Henry Hubbard
Idle Threat
C27 #1067
Dahlgren, VA
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Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Broken forestay advice
Do I need to take the boat out of the water to replace the forestay?
nah. just attach the spinn and jib halyards to something solid
(stem fitting, etc) and then harden them up real real tight with
a winch. Those will hold the mast in place just fine for you to
go aloft. I usually try to get the dock lines bar tight and have
crew ready to level out the boat in case some nerd wakes you while
you're up.
it's no biggie. tape the snap shackles shut though.
go aloft on the main halyard. take the tools you need
and drop a messenger in case you forget something...the crew
can send things up on a messenger. take a separate line to
clip into something at the top...some para webbing with a
beener works well...I sometimes make a loop I can step into
to take the weight off my middle once in a while if I know
I'll be aloft for more than a few minutes.
tf
