In an East Coast marina recently with a head sail halyard involuntarily unclipped from the yankee and at the top of the mast. I was short-handed and asked the yard if they could loan me a mast ladder to retrieve it.
They did not have one.
I asked if they could send me up in my bosun's chair.
They told me: 'It's a problem these days. We will only go up a mast in a tested bosun's chair hauled up by a tested crane.'
You have been warned.
Dick Durham is an East Coast sailor of the old school, his blog is witty and wistful, full of surprises and can be as cutting as a fresh nor' easterly
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