Linden Boat Harbour, on Utah Lake, is asking $30 per month for secured storage . it is not a paved area, but it is chain link with razor ribbon .

Do those of you using mast up storage leave your rudder's attached and just drop the sails?

i keep my NACRA 18 square mast up with an concrete block under the ground with a chain that has a line attached that i tie to the dolphin stricker.

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Linden Boat Harbour, on Utah Lake, is asking $30 per month for secured storage . it is not a paved area, but it is chain link with razor ribbon .

Do those of you using mast up storage leave your rudder's attached and just drop the sails?

This is mast up storage on your trailer? Yes, great thing as long as you can safely trailer the boat mast up straight to the ramp or beach.

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We remove the main and furl the jib with a snorkel or remove the jib on non furlers. Tie your halyards away from the mast as neighbors don't think of the clicking is a lullaby. We also put a tarp over the tramp to keep the uv exposure to a minimum. Rudders and blocks left on. Tied to something solid since we are off the trailer. mast up is the way to go.

Pete

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Yes guys, mast up on the trailer. I should have been more specific. We have no beach options here, in fact we have no beaches to speak of. It is probably 250 yards from the storage lot to the ramp. I am leaving the main sheet block on the tramp with life jackets, all covered with a tarp so that they can dry.

Only the main sail and jib will go in the sail box for now, and once I find a furler the jib will stay up and covered as well.

As it is, I am lucky to get to sail one day a week, if I can be launched and rigged in 15-20 minutes, I will make it much more often. Hell I could be an every night sailor. This marina is 5 miles from my home, and only 2 miles from my office!

Now the best place to find a jib furler is?

Thanks to all

Kevin

You can either make your own, or order a kit from Murrays

http://www.murrays.com/mm…61&Category_Code=C-MO-RF

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Tie your halyards away from the mast as neighbours don't think of the clicking is a lullaby.

We store 2 Nacras at my dock, secured to modified SeaDoo lifts.
Not only are loose halyards annoying, the wire line & fittings quickly wear the anodizing & metal on the mast. The easiest way we have come up with is to tie them to the rear beam, as a single entity.
The wire portion is already at the rear of the mast, just bring the other half around outside the shroud & trap lines to meet the wire portion. Make a bight in the line section, then push a bit of line through the bight, so it forms small loop. You can now hook the halyard shackle into this loop, then bring the bitter end back to the beam, wrap it around, under a bit of tension & tie off.
This keeps both sections of the halyard far away from the mast, & the tension prevents them from flogging around. It is far simpler than it sounds, literally a 20 second job.
The previous owner of the 5.0 didn't do this, or he left the lines slack enough to move against the mast. The marks on the mast are VERY evident.

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under the ground with a chain that has a line attached that i tie to the dolphin stricker.

I would personally never tie my boat down by the dolphin striker (nor pull it up on the beach wheels with the striker)

they are strong when a force is directed in the correct direction (downward) since they are attached to the beam in 2 places - but not engineered to take side loads

The wind storms we get here would bend and probably remove it from my boat. removal, fabrication and replacement was expensive and time consuming... i prefer to never do it again