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...as Charlie says, you have to be 
In Response To: When someones going up the mast ()
() familiar with using a windlass for this job - our's is manual and is backed up by an oversized bollard - several wraps on the windlass, then the bollard and I have complete control. Now in our later years we also use a second halyard to a winch as backup.
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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 . . .
- Brion Toss described the sound of the body hitting the deck
- When someones going up the mast
- ...as Charlie says, you have to be
- The best riggers shinny up ---
- ...as Charlie says, you have to be
- Up the mast.....