CP16- How do you carry your mast?

[ChuckO]

When purchased, the former owner had the mast  mounted on a bracket above the bow pulpit and to a gallows aft.  The boom was attached to wooden supports mounted on the trailer under the port side of the boat.  The gallows was also fitted with a bracket to cradle the boom when the mast was in the raised position.

I had to remove the bow pulpit bracket and the gallows itself as their height would not allow me to garage store the rig.

I now carry the mast suspended under the bow pulpit through a support attached to the mast tabernacle on to a rudder mounted mast crutch allowing shrouds to remain attached ... ready for the mast to be raised.  The boom is suspended under the mast and on the mast crutch aft.

I think it best to travel with neither the mast or boom under the boat ..... dirt and grime as well as more time to rig mast, boom and sail. Be a mess on a rainy day.

ChuckO'
CP16/2 Carpe Diem
Charleston, SC

[Defiant]

I've opted to carry up high since I recently purchased new sails and a roller furler. I fabricated a mast crutch for the fore deck which mounts through the deck via a 1 1/2" chain hawse pipe I installed.  Now the mast is supported by crutches at two ends and by a foam block in the middle of the pilothouse.

[Craig Weis]

On my CP-19 I place a two x four across the bow and stern pulpit and secure them with U bolts and butterfly 1/4 inch butter fly nuts.

Than walk the mast back to the stern pulpit after it comes down from the tabernacle.

I use 3-M PVC electric tape to tie up the off-set mast [off set on the two x fours for the companion way entrance.] and the shrouds.
Then a line front and back around the two x fours. [3-M because it comes off clean.]

Tow it down the road.

craig.