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[quote=Quarath]do you raise it attached to the forestay or to a trap line. if you use a winch electrical or otherwise and attach it to a forestay it can be a pain to release from the winch and attach to your bridles. If you attach to trap line then you can leave it whiched until you lock in the forestay.

The easy-step just make sit easier to control the side to side sway as it goes up once it gets up high enough that problem goes away some. You can add support for side sway by taking a trap line on each side and tying taught to the front crossbeam on the outside edges. This will help the side sway more when the mast in not very high as it is tied into the fulcrum, with your side stays a ways back from the fulcrum they offer no support until the mast is pretty much up.

If you are gonna use an electric motor winch and guide from back at the same time you have to have one that has a wireless remote otherwise you have to have someone to run the winch.<em>edited by: Quarath, Mar 10, 2010 - 11:51 AM</em> [/quote]

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