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If you regularly go aloft Solo, what's your preferred method? Why? And what's the total cost of the gear in your setup?
Well a lot of the newer designs for going aloft on sailboats actually came from mountain climbing gear. Also in my opinion once your above 40 ft or so it doesn't matter if you fall from there or from 300ft - its still going to hurt you very bad or kill you especially on a larger sailboat with a much taller mast so why take the chance.If you are going solo, why do you need climbing gear? One would think that would be for going so high!
And people die falling 20-30 feet all of the time. And the mountains don't rock when a skier comes by.Well a lot of the newer designs for going aloft on sailboats actually came from mountain climbing gear. Also in my opinion once your above 40 ft or so it doesn't matter if you fall from there or from 300ft - its still going to hurt you very bad or kill you especially on a larger sailboat with a much taller mast so why take the chance.
Bingo. That's what I do. I save up my mast projects and go up a couple of times a year. So far I've always been able to find someone trustworthy to punch the electric winch button and tail the safety halyard.It would be so nice to have (a) another person and (b) an electric winch.
It was actually eolon's coments that I was reacting to.It was a joke numbskull!
Actually I use klemheist knots and webbing. Dirt Cheap!
All you young whipper snappers using all that new-fangled stuff ought to learn how it used to be done. You never know when that may be all you have! :laugherOfcourse, the only reason to use a klemheist knot is poor credit. Join the 20 century at least, man!