Re: Fail-safing the mast base

From: Ken Poulton (poulton@zonker.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com)
Date: Thu Oct 16 2003 - 15:55:34 PDT 

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Subject: Re: Fail-safing the mast base 
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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:55:34 -0700
From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>

> I think it's a good time to review a few
> simple techniques that can be used to fail-safe against some common mast
> base failures.

I do one thing that protects against all these failure modes at once: I
clip my uphaul to the board.

I put a small loop of rope on extra nut in the mast track, and use a
small carabiner to clip the lower end of the uphaul to the loop on the
board (instead of to the mast base). This would get wound up if you
always made jibes on one tack and duck jibes on the other, but it has
never caused me a problem.

Ken Poulton

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
                                        -- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

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