"Scotty" w@u wrote in message
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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in

That's entirely acceptable. You're using the bosun's chair
as a handy
place to keep your tools and supplies and to perhaps rest
up a bit. But
you go aloft using the steps and you descend using the
steps. For time
consuming or major jobs that's a good way to do them. I
have found that
many jobs are of short duration. Things such as removing a
defective VHF
antenna and replacing it with a new one, lubing the
anemometer sending
unit, straightening the arms on the Windex if a big bird
bends them,
cleaning and waxing the standing rigging, lubricating the
sheaves,
replacing a burned out steaming light bulb,

You go through a lot of steaming lights, eh?


Only when the mainmast gets struck by lightning. That would be twice in
twenty years.

Wilbur Hubbard