e29 mast step pic?

[jdeboer]

Good evening,

Does anyone have pictures of the mast step of an E29? I'm exploring to step the mast on my dock and would like to know what the step looks like.

Thanks,
Jolanda
E29, berkeley

 

[Randy Rutledge]

How do you plan to lift the mast? If you don’t have a tabernacle (hinged mast step) you will have to lift the mast about 1 ¼ inch to get it off the step and then you will have no way to control the lowering f the mast. The mast was stepped on my boat by the previous owner by using the halyards of two other boats tied up alongside to lift the mast. I used a boom truck to un-step the mast when I hauled my boat.

Do NOT try to lower you mast by hand. You will get hurt and destroy stuff.

The picture is of the step mounted on a prototype of the tabernacle I am building. I am using ½ inch aluminum for the tabernacle.