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• At the dinghy dock I saw a girl getting hoisted to the masthead with no safety halyard.
  • I always use two lines...
  • That would give me some worry too
  • Yeow is all I can say.
    • Ok, ok, I admit in my youth hoisting myself with a four part fall and no second halyard..
  • I always use 2 halyards
  • Two halyards plus a lanyard
    • One halyard, plus a lanyard
  • I just use a single halyard and the electric self tailing winch...
    • Same here,
    • Same with us
  • Last time up..
  • Good to hear i'm not alone. I can still see that winch creaking, imagining the screws in the 1/8" thick mast.
  • I guess we're all older and smarter now . . .
    • I spent my youth in a similar fashion Jeremy!
    • Slowing down with age
      • We never wore a harness either.
        • I sailed on the Bounty out of Sydney, Australia
          • Bluenose 2, about 30 years ago.
  • Brion Toss described the sound of the body hitting the deck
    • I have never seen a rigger use a backup.
      • That is typical from my observations, too.
        • sounds like the (over)thought police
  • When someones going up the mast
    • ...as Charlie says, you have to be
      • We ALWAYS use a self-tailing winch
    • The best riggers shinny up ---
      • Going aloft
  • Up the mast.....