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Subject: Re: [worldcruising] Mast steps
From: Doug Sterrett (dwsterrett@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Feb 03 2001 - 16:29:24 EST
No offense to ATN but I priced the components used in this set-up at my
local rock climbing shop and came up with $175 instead of ATN's $280 (with
inferior ascenders). Go buy the pieces yourself (get Petzl brand
ascenders) and save yourself some money. Cautionary note: Try this rig
out hanging from a rafter in your garage before you go up your mast. It
takes a little learning to get the knack of it.
Doug
At 11:08 AM 2/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I am planning to install permanent, folding mast steps so I can climb my
>mast. Any suggestions on brands, spacing, installation? I already have a
>block and tackle with a bosun's chair to go up the mast.
>
>Jim Howard, in Handbook of Offshore Cruising, p. 53, suggests that one
>should have both mast steps and a bosun's chair, and that neither is a fun
>way to go up the mast. Howard strung some light line between his mast steps
>and the upper shrouds to keep halyards from fouling.
>
>Does anyone know how Ellen MacArthur got up the mast of 'Kingfisher'
>recently in the Southern Ocean during the Vendee Globe race to clear a sail
>from a spreader? I have not seen a clear description of it and there are no
>details on her web page, www.ellenmacarthur.com.
>
>Practical Sailor recently rated the ATN TopClimber very highly, a clever
>variant on the bosun's chair. (Available at a discount from Defender.)
>Practical Sailor previously rated the Fastep mast steps, which can be
>inserted in pre-drilled holes in the mast. The idea of going up the mast
>with a number of steps that need to be inserted while you are bobbing back
>and forth, or pounding, does not appeal to me. At the Atlantic City Boat
>Show Alfred Gilbert, the inventor, said I would probably make two trip just
>to put them all in. And I suppose two trips to take them all down, hoping
>that none fall on deck or in the water.
>
>Evert
>Ohlson 38 'Toucan'
>
>
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