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Originally Posted by Warren M.
I personally think that this is what money is for: hiring a pro to go up your mast and install your windex.
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I personally think that's how one ends-up
having to pay someone $75/hour for such trivial things. That's also how some sailors end-up with a mildly broken boat, far from a yard and no clear way to get her to a yard, so now what do they do? One just like that was just posted here a couple days ago.
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Originally Posted by Warren M.
I've seen two people fall, and get seriously hurt, trying to go up their masts to do minor repairs. Both were inexperienced, had inexperienced help on deck (you need at least two people there -- one to grind, the other to tail -- never depend on a self-tailing winch for this purpose), and both had inadequate deck hardware (winches too small and in the wrong location).
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So they did it w/o experienced guidance, and did it improperly (no surprise there), and damage and injury resulted. Thus nobody should ever do it themselves because other people are stupid or careless? Being out there on the water, under sail, what with all the things that can go wrong, seems to me to be
at least as risky as properly going up the mast, if not more so.
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Originally Posted by Warren M.
My advice is to throw a few bucks at the problem and live to go sailing tomorrow....
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My advice is: Find out how to do it
right, and do it
safely, and do it yourself. Just like how you learned to sail the boat
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Jim