The folks at The Sailboat Shop, Lake Pleasant, in Peoria Az, helped me raise the mast. They have a flagpole type crane that we used to lift the mast. We tied one end of a line around the middle of the mast, the line then went upto a block at the top. From there it went through a block on the deck and to a spinnaker winch. My dad turned the winch, I kept the tension and my son helped feed wires. The pros did the rest.
When we unstepped the mast, a crane(a real crane, not a glorified flagpole) pulled up and the boat stayed still. Beforehand, I sprayed the base with some breakfree and wacked it with a deadblow rubber mallet to jar some of the corrosion loose. My mast slides over the socket, so I was tapping directly on the mast. The boat did lift half a foot or so before it came loose. I would not have wanted to do this without a crane.