tabernacle mast

[bills...@gmail.com]

Am considering adding a tabernacle to the mast of my SC 27, Has anyone
done one? any tips? where did you get the Hardware?

[Mark K]

Ballanger Spars (www.ballengerspars.com) has Hinged Mast Bases on
their custom parts page. Look for the following item:

HMB SC27 - 1/4" ss hinge plates, plain

It's not exactly a tabernacle... but the same idea.

I would be interested as well to hear from anyone that has tried
this. I was considering it, but one of the riggers at Svendsens
strongly recommended not to. His concern was that a SC27 mast is
pretty beefy, and without a very good system for supporting it during
raising and lowering, the results could be disastrous.

[William Scholtz]

Thanks for the info, maybe I'll do some more research and will let you know how it works if I install it. Bill

[DonQuixote]

I am using the ballanger hinge on my SC27 and find it works great.
Just bolt one side to the step and the other to the deck
Buz has 2 different models one with a flange for mounting blocks and
one without the flange. I would recommend the flange
over mounting blocks on the deck. I didn't do it this way but wish I
had.

[Mark K]

How do you keep the mast steady during raising/lowering? Do you have
a crew of folks helping, or do you have a system to do it alone? I'd
like to be able to do it alone.

[jkim]

The setup on Jersey Girl allows a person to raise and lower with one
person. What I liked about it was other than forestay and backstay,
standing rigging did not have to be touched therefore on the water
fast with no tuning! When I owned that boat, someone stole my setup so
had to machine new parts...but at the end of the day was very
convenient!

Setup consisted of:
* two blocks on the deck
* two AL tubes (~13' long)
* 4 machined ends to fit into the the AL tube, attach to the
blocks on deck and attach near forestay to form an A-frame
* a temporary block on the bow
* a sheet that ran from above the spreaders to the apex of the A-
frame
* sheet that ran from the apex of the A-frame, through the block
on the bow and back to one of the primary winches

Lowering consisted of detaching the forestay, easing the mast back on
the hinge plate (described above), detach the butt end of the mast and
secure. Raising/Lowering took about 20 minutes. Less with crew.

[William Scholtz]

Thanks a lot for the info!!

[crazy_rhythm]

I have to second the Jersey Girl set up. I added a hinge plate to my
boat a while back and after a couple of mast raisings using the hinge
plate and brute force I have concluded that the rig on an sc27 is just
too unwieldy for this. The method works fine for express 27's and
moore 24's but the sc 27 mast is much heavier. So, I built myself an A-
frame as described above. It works beautifully although I never tried
using the setup to cant the rig back and remove the mast from the step
w/o slacking the shrouds first. I have always just picked the mast up
vertically a couple of inches. So, thanks for the idea, Mark.

On Feb 14, 4:55 pm, William Scholtz <billscho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the info!!
>