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[quote=fxloop]The gin pole I have works great [i]BUT[/i] don't you have to get the shrouds or trap wires involved to have side to side leverage at the top of the mast? Kinda tough on the 20 because the mast tang on the front of the mast is rotated 90* when stepping so pulling on any of the rigging tries to pull the mast to center. I've been manually forcing to keep the 90* twist the whole way up and down, not very hard to do if it saves me 30 minutes of rigging various contraptions. FWIW I wouldn't even think about setting it all up solo and going sailing alone. Those diamond wires, under that much tension, leverage and vertical would surely slice anything that got in its way if something failed  :-O 
Arch, your system is great and worth every penny! Put up more pics and info, guys on 18-21' cats would feel better buying your system. I just happened to have 80% of ideal materials floating around my house  :-D I just plugged ya on the HC forum for a guy that looking to solo step his Hobie Tiger. Sailors helping sailors.

[quote]a-frame' which attaches to the crossbeam[/quote] do you have additional hardware bolted to the front crossbar to make that work?

[quote]I can gin pole my arc22 no problem solo with a 38.5' mast on my floating dock[/quote]
 I'd love to see a video of that!!!!!<em>Edited by fxloop on Apr 02, 2014 - 07:44 AM.</em> [/quote]

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