The coax cables come out of the mast at the bottom, where they connect to ones that come out of the deck. The wired wind pack comes with wires that will run the length of the mast and would then connect into to NMEA system inside the boat. Does anyone have an experience setting something like this up on a deck-stepped boat?
B&G NMEA2000 Wired Wind instrument Install (deck stepped mast) - what ... The mast will come down on that, resting at a point that is behind the center of gravity. On my mast support I put a rubber roller, like those used on boat trailers, on the frame at the point where the mast would come down on it. Once the mast was on it, I would disconnect the hinge at the base of the mast and walk it forward.
mast young plants, I am curious to hear some thoughts, tricks and tips with regards to stepping and unstepping a mast on a small boat (Less than 25 feet) without a crane, single handed, or with only the help of a small child. I have done some research and actually gone, looked at a few systems, and even own a... The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat. Its purposes include carrying sail, spars, and derricks, and giving necessary height to a navigation light, look-out position, signal yard, control position, radio aerial or signal lamp. Hey folks, Sweetwaters (a Stevens 47) has an in-mast furling main.
mast young plants, In recent years the main has been getting jammed while coming out. It furls in fine, but the problem is becoming more frequent. It now happening about 50% of the time. When it jams, the only solution is to slowly work it in... The trailerable Hunters use a gin pole system for mast raising (I beleive Hunter has a video, or link to it, on using the system). Basically, the mast has a hole in the front section into which the pole is inserted.
The pole has two opposing eyes on the other end. The runners are attached on both sides of the mast (port and starboard) at the same height where the fractional forestay attaches to the mast. The runners counteract the force applied by the forestay, just as a conventional backstay would counteract the force applied to the mast head by a conventional headstay.
