On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:26:21 -0600, cavelamb
wrote:

wrote:
Mast steps?

Nope.

You have a modified Top Climber ? as I recall...

Completely my own creation. No Top Climber components used. Same idea,
but using better components and several design improvements.


No offense intended, but i can't imagine actually trying to use that.

A bosun's chair on a rope is one thing. Your hands are (more or less)
free to do something.

But climbing up what amounts to a rope ladder and trying to do anything
beyond snapping pictures is way beyond me.

Richard

??? My hands are both free at any point where I stop. It's nothing
like a "rope ladder"

One huge advantage over mast steps is that by rigging things
differently, I can ascend up along the forestay, backstay, or out to
the ends of the spreaders. I can reach any point above the deck of my
boat that might require access. And unlike being hauled up in a
bosun's chair the traditional way, I can stand up out of my bosun's
chair so I can see what I'm doing when working at the top of the mast.
I'm over the top looking down. A bosun's chair normally winched up,
stops with your head lower than the top of the mast.