Bill you think everything in term of your puny 20 foot mast
and grossly obese form.

Everyone, myself included, gets mighty nevvous going up
a 60' mast.

I have one guy tailing a safety line. One grinder for each set
of the three spreaders, and one up the mast. I've done it with
fewer, but I prefer to keep an eye on things as i've caught people
failing to belay the safety line on two occassions.

I can do it with fewer if the climber actually climbs instead of
being dead weight. I've done it with just myself grinding the
main halyard and tailing both lines, but it was brutal work.

The last three tiimes the climber didn't climb and weighed
245 lbs. It was slow work in low gear the whole way.

"Capt.Mooron" wrote

"Commodore Joe Redcloud" wrote in message
Uh... Bert... You can haul the proper static line up USING one of your
wire
halyards. DUH! This system requires NO helper, and who needs FIVE for a
conventional bosun's chair? Do you weigh 600 pounds or something?

This comment from someone like Commode Joe.... who needs a hand getting
his fat ass out of a chair to waddle over to the bathroom and change
Depends......

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa..... try not to **** yourself till the nurse
gets back from Starbucks !!

CM