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Bookmark or Share- Lightning 19' mast stepping, help need.. - SailNet CommunityLightning 19' mast stepping, help need.. I bought a Lightning Class 19' sailboat. The seller, a friend and myself nearly killed ourselves stepping the mast. The mast is 26 ft long and must be dropped vertically into a small hole in fore deck. We nearly dropped it on the seller's car. I was told to use a gin pole, is that the best and safest way.
- Freedom 21 tabernacle mast hinge retrofit | SailNet CommunityFreedom made a retrofit, or at least designed it. A simplified explanation is the mast is cut into two parts. The retrofit involves two aluminum tubes, one epoxied into the lower half., the other tube epoxied into the upper part of the mast. When stepping the mast, the upper tube telescopes into the lower section and is still un-stayed.
- Sailboat without a mast - SailNet CommunityI think many people are assuming a sailboat without a mast behaves the same as a sailboat without any sails up and it's completely different. But this is all based on personal and a rather limited selection, but wide ranging type of boats (from a 27' sloop to a 58' hermaphrodite brig). 1979 Cherubini Raider 33.
- Spar vs. mast. What's the difference? | SailNet CommunityThe mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat. Its purposes include carrying sail, spars, and derricks, and giving necessary height to a navigation light, look-out position, signal yard, control position, radio aerial or signal lamp. [1]
- Broken Mast - Sleeve or Replace? | SailNet Community1) distance along the mast from the top of the spreader to the hounds (where the upper shrouds attach), 2) the diameter of the wire of the upper and lower shrouds and fore and back stays. 3) Ask the seller of it was deck stepped and if he has the deck step. You will do the same measurements on your boat.
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