[quote=GilleyNM]Tim:
Turning the 'way back' dial toward its stop, I was taught the best way to step a Hobie 14 mast by Hobie Alter at the Mid Winters East Regatta (1976 or 78?) in Tampa, FL. While up on the tramp, 'wrestling' the mast to assure it was still "hooked," (the mast foot had a hook molded into the mast foot bottom back then), he ask me what (the h...) I was doing. "Stepping the mast," I replied. "East Coaster," he replied, "do it like this." He move a shroud up to last hole on one side, attached the fore stay, stepped up onto the tramp, stood the mast up next to the front cross bar, (resting the mast base on a towel) and in one swift motion lifted the mast up and lowered it into the mast base. He got off the tramp and said to place the shroud back into the proper position and to break off the hook. I have been doing stepping and un-stepping my and others Hobie 14 masts like I was 'taught' for over 40 years ago and have not 'dropped one' yet. I would suggest you take off the 'new fangled' mast link, too.
Michael Gilley
Shell Point, Fla.
Only a novice on this site but a cat sailor since '69.[/quote]
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