Tanzer 16 Mast Raising -- another approach

Tanzer 16 Mast Raising -- another approach -- April 23, 2016  Received an email and picture from Karl Price, 1305 in Port Orchard, Washington, US. He has come up with a simple aid to raise the mast.  You still need a little muscle, but the mast is always under control (you don't risk poking a hole in the forward tank), and it is a lot less work to create than my hinged approach.

 Here is his email and a picture.  

As to the mast raising,... It’s a straight walk the mast up kinda thing but what I found was there was nowhere to start. The foot of the mast was flailing under the foredeck and I had no way to anchor it while I walked the mast upright. My solution was to add a piece of ash from the keelson to the stinger that runs under the foredeck. It’s as think as the keelson is wide and has a curve cut into it that somewhat flows down to the keelson. Now I have something to brace the foot of the mast against as I walk it up. The higher I get the mast, the foot begins to slide down the curve and plops right onto the keelson. This is done with the shroud’s in place and the jib sheet running forward for fore and aft support until I get the forestay attached.

The attached photo shows the uncurved prototype piece I used to test the theory and I can say that it works pretty well.

When we get a picture of Karl's final installation,
I will add a page just for this method.

Tanzer 16 Painting nearing end -- Centerboard trunk secure

Tanzer 16 Painting nearing end  -- Centerboard trunk secure  -- April 20, 2016  The boat is going back together, and I am relieved.  Ever since we took the centerboard thwart and centerboard cap off the fragile centerboard trunk has been exposed.  It is quite tough when everything is together, but alone, it isn't much.

The trunk looks and feels fragile sitting there all by itself.

We have been very careful crawling around the cockpit.  Brian Mrachek told me that he reinforced his trunk with more glass while he was painting his boat.  It looks like a previous owner--probably Ron, installed some aluminum reinforcement bars under the glass flange that holds the cap--good idea, Ron.

Things feel much better now with the cap back in and the thwart attached.  It looks and feels sturdy.

Yes, I know there is a lot of stuff attached to the trunk cap.  All of it is
helpful for racing or single handing.

While we were at it, the mast step was changed back to a cleaner install.  We got rid of the big oak box that seemed unnecessary.

This option was discussed in the gin pole mast raising page.  I had said I
would do it this way if I had it to do over--as it turned out, I did.

Next up--repaint the transom, install the rest of the hardware, install the rubrail, install the graphics. Go sailing and practice with the new spinnaker chute and the roller furling Genoa.