"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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"KLC Lewis wrote:

Cost of pulling and storing the stick(s) for the winter, cost for
restepping
in the spring, hassle of extensive retuning.

You gotta be kidding.

For openers, you store the stick on the boat, not some shed.

This allows you to use stick as a ridge pole and cover the total boat
including the rigging.

It is the best way to go. For 25 years I had an A frame and tabernacle on
my 27 feet sailboat. Lowering and raising the 33 feet mast was no problem
for one man with any crane of other means. I had a roller stand astern and
roll the mast over the bow pulpit then I installed the plastic tarp over it.
But with this boat the stick has two spreaders and is 50 feet long with the
radar antenna mounted on it. I only wish I could do the same thing as I did
on my old boat.

I would be very thankfull if you could tell me how to use my two spreaders
50 feet mast with a radar antenna as a ridge pole and covering the total
boat.

Trying to be a cheap skate and save a few bucks on an in/out mast
charge is simply not prudent, IMHO.

Lew