IDEAS LOCKER
Oct 21, 2020
4 minutes
BY PETREA McCARTHY
SAFER MAST CLIMBING
Riggers and surveyors often have to go up masts with a stranger in charge of the halyard. Although cruisers would usually avoid this situation, sometimes it is inescapable. As I did when I was yacht rigging full time, marine surveyor Anthony Gates has developed a few tricks. Here is what he does to ensure his own safety:
“Not all cruising yachts have a large crew or electric winch to grind you aloft, plus someone to take up on a safety line. In my job I often do not even know the person I
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