[quote=Andinista]It's actually the mast base that keeps the mast rotated (for this type of mast step), when raising there's nothing to do about it, at 4:19 of the video you can see how it rotates because the rod comes out of the mast base notch. I wasn't forcing or releasing mast rotation at any point. When lowering you have to manually rotate the mast to guide the rod into the notch, that is on a short part of the movement and it´s quite easy to do. If you would want to raise or lower the mast from the ground instead of the tramp, then yes, you would need to lock the mast at 90°. That would involve more complexity, but not just that, you would need a better angle of the line when the mast is down, that's what the gin pole is for. In my case on the first part of the raising I don't use the line to pull the mast up, only the other hand and then pull and cleat the line to secure at the new position. At one point I stopped holding the mast with my hand to deal with the tangling with a bungee, at that point the tension of the line was pretty high, I felt a bit nervous about it. As the angle between the pulling line and the mast decreases, the tension increases, that goes up to infinity with a 0 angle.<!-- editby --><em>Edited by Andinista on Sep 08, 2023 - 10:09 AM.</em><!-- end editby --> [/quote]
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