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Piece of cake, here. It's all what you're used to. 
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And it's a fast process if you're used to it and the equipment is available. If you strip your boom yourself, etc, loosen turnbuckles, mine is lifted out of the boat and safely onto horses in 10 to 15 minutes. Done.
The reverse takes another 5 or so minutes. But it's pulled with a large boom attached to the travelift. The amount of time it takes is more than recovered in covering the boat. It's not free, unfortunately. But it is a safe and stressfree method.
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- Dismasting of the Galapagos
- A harrowing story, and a good advertisement for free standing rigs...
- Checking out their blog, it's not the first time they had a rigging issue
- That was a good find. It's about
- I don't drop the mast anymore. Pain in the ass and often damaged something in the process.
- I always figured it was kind of
- different school of thought
- Piece of cake, here. It's all what you're used to.
- Yup, stepping and unstepping are simple and stress free..
- I left a couple of things out
- You guys have to have fairly simple
- I will stop complaining
- I find stepping/unstepping to be tedious and costly, not stressful..
- OK, Now we're talking apples and apples.
- When you do it every year you get it down to a simple process...
- Not quite as easy on a larger, more complex boat...
- Well, part of the difference jumps out
- Every ten years whether it needs it or not...
- Not quite as easy on a larger, more complex boat...
- OK, Now we're talking apples and apples.
- Simple, as in stock yawl rig, I guess.
- You guys have to have fairly simple
- I left a couple of things out
- Yup, stepping and unstepping are simple and stress free..
- Piece of cake, here. It's all what you're used to.
- different school of thought
- I always figured it was kind of
- I don't drop the mast anymore. Pain in the ass and often damaged something in the process.
- And sometimes it's just plain luck. Here's Tehani's broken mast head
- That was a good find. It's about
- A harrowing story, and a good advertisement for free standing rigs...
