Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
1 - They are heavy.

Once my youngest boy and his friend got the mast off the Halman, they
put it on some blocks and I looked it over. I need new lines for
almost everything, but the stays look ok.

Interesting little feature that I'd never seen before - the back stay
has an additional little clip swaged onto the stay - I imagine it's an
emergency type of deal.

I'm not at all sure I could raise and lower the mast myself - I'm
going to have to invent something if I'm going that route because I
just tried to lift one end with my good arm and it is heavy.

We also laid out the boat cover and it's quite a deal - all custom
made with zippers, mast home, velcro all over the place - very
impressive.

I'm hoping my shoulder feels better tomorrow so I can work some on the
trailer.

I don't think your mast is much longer than mine, but I'm sure the
diameter is bigger. I can handle my mast quite easily and right now
it's on top of two sawhorses in my back yard. I just drilled a hole in
the masthead casing and installed a shackle to help me raise it
singlehanded, in combination with my 'gin pole' and my 'crutch pole'.