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Get AWAY from this guy!!!!!!!! Zillions of boats are land stored with mast up and with NO problem.

With the mast up you principally increase the risk of the boat falling off its jackstands in high wind areas.

Impact on the rigging from the wind isnt really a problem (for very long term) as fatigue principally propagates when the rig/metal tensions cyclically go over 30% of ultimate tension values .... if the rig is (normally) set at 15%, then that extra 15% to exceed the 'fatigue' value **from the wind** would certainly be well beyond what it would take to knock a boat over with the spars still up.

Get AWAY from this gloom and doomsayer.

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