On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:05:01 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:15:12 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote:

Bosun's chair: Not bad but does require that somebody else has your
life in their hands which I do not like.

On my old sailboats we always made it standard practice to have a
second halyard attached to the bosuns chair, which was tailed to a
winch by a second person. In all of the many trips up the mast, the
second halyard never came into play but it was reassuring to know it
was there.

Some use the second halyard attached to a safety belt or harness. One
line on the seat and a second on the man.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)