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I sailed on the Bounty out of Sydney, Australia
In Response To: We never wore a harness either. ()
And then on a topsail ketch called the Coral Trecker in the Whitsunday Islands. We did actually have "harnesses" on the Coral Trecker and we were supposed to wear them in the rig but no one ever clipped in because they were just a rope looped around the waist and we figgured we were better of falling than getting caught up on the harness.
What ship were you on David?
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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.
- I always use 2 halyards
- Two halyards plus a lanyard
- I just use a single halyard and the electric self tailing winch...
- 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
- We never wore a harness either.
- Brion Toss described the sound of the body hitting the deck
- When someones going up the mast
- Up the mast.....