[quote=jonathan162]There is no universal answer - it depends on the boat and situation. I have always stepped the Mystere mast solo by hand. The H18 was a special situation - no proper ramp and many trees forced me to step it on the water, and it was impossible to do that by hand without breaking mast step castings because the boat just bounced around too much. I finally put bow bumpers on the dock, pointed the boat at it, and used a winch on the boathouse to raise the mast. The SC19 is just too damn heavy (and the angle on the trailer is wrong) to do solo, at least without some extra block+tackle trickery to the mast stand. So I built a copy of Dave Farmer's gin pole (it's in the photos section, I made a slight improvement) and I can raise that sucker safely and effortlessly solo in 10 minutes.<!-- editby --><em>Edited by jonathan162 on Sep 01, 2021 - 02:17 PM.</em><!-- end editby --> [/quote]
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