Stepping the mast the other way

[clair hofmann]

Check out this way of stepping the mast. www.towndock.net Not the fastest wat. It took 9 hours.
Only in Oriental.
Clair

[LeatherneckPA]

OK, that was just plain NUTS!! He's lucky the Chief didn't fine him. I've got a pretty good idea how heavy the mast on our Chrysler is. This thing must be massive. And I know I'm being a bit perverse here, but I think it would have been too funny if after all that it made the boat too tall to fit under the bridge.

[Mario G]

That boat has been moored near the bridge de masted for a while now, we have sailed past it a few times. Not sure what the problem was.

Yea nine hours to rase a mast, I think I would have paid the $200, the fines for the next guy will be atleast that. If he would have waited till this weekend I would have helped

Whats funny is more then once were we told about useing a few different bridges when we we trying to get our mast up in the Manteo area north of Oriental. There was no marina with a crane. in the area thou.

[kalamazoogal]

I'd give them high marks for tenacity and creativity. I'm afraid to detail
some of the methods we used to hang the support I-beams that now
support our house. Let's just say that our skidloader wasn't big
enough to do all the lifting and leave it at that