"Flying Pig"  wrote in message 
...
 Look what I miss while I'm in the woods...
 "Wilbur Hubbard"  wrote in message 
   anews.com...
 Things I don't like a
 3) no mast steps (it shouldn't take a committee to ascent to the 
 masthead)
 Wilbur Hubbard
 I thought you were one of the ones complaining about how nasty mast steps 
 were for tangling lines...
 L8R
 Skip, still looking for that one Pace-Edwards mast step
 -- 
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 "Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely nothing-half 
 so
 much worth doing as simply messing, messing-about-in-boats; messing about 
 in
 boats-or *with* boats.
 In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter.  Nothing seems really to matter, 
 that's
 the charm of it.
 Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your
 destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get
 anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in
 particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, 
 and
 you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not."
I'm against the kind that you were planning to install. They snag halyards. 
The kind I have installed are the folding type that can't snag a line if 
they tried. No REAL sailor adds anything to his boat that will cause more 
trouble than it's worth. That's why I tried to talk you out of your folly 
but you wouldn't listen because you have a stubborn streak.
You can just barely see my folding mast steps. They are that unobtrusive.
http://captainneal.wordpress.com/
this particular photo shows them the most:
http://captainneal.files.wordpress.c...dsc00294ps.jpg
Please don't be envious of how my boat shines and Flying Pig is sort of all 
dull and chalky looking.
Wilbur Hubbard