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Mast Service

We love it most when you call us because your anchor light is not working.Let's take the new LED-light and our spider man gets into the mast climbing seat :

Then we lift him up to the mast and he changes the light bulb. Let's check if it works and it is a well done job

If things are more complicated we have also an other spider man with more experience:

In some cases it is necessary that we both must be on the mast at the same time:

In even more demanding works on your mast we call a crane for help to lift us up in the basket

We usually cooperate with the car carrier ¨Burić¨

We don't like it at all if you call us in such cases:

But even in such cases we know how to puzzle out the problem without causing further damage, even we have to engage three cranes:

We like if you call us, for example,if you need the deck winches to be serviced, especially if it's not urgent:

or if you need the mast winch service (here it is ready for installation)

These are all our services. Let us also mention that we often dismantle and prepare the mast for the transport (mostly to Balaton Lake/Hungary, Lake Constance/Bodensee or to the North Sea).

We still want to describe the turnbuckles bodys change (rigging screws body). Often we are unable to trim the mast because of the stuck turnbuckle body and it is impossible to loosen them even by heating. In this case we cut them to the thread. Precise work is required here and for this we recommend a battery powered (cordless) grinder.

When the turnbuckle body is disassembled, it's time to clean the right and the left threads.

The threads should definitely be lubricated.

This is the turnbuckles after being replaced.

The same thing should be done at the spreader of the linked rigging.

So the old turnbuckle bodys look like, all in one pile

Now, when all tensioners are in function, the mast trimming can start….. �

After an unforgettable sailing trip with his boat, the hero of this story, unaware of the problems that will come his way, decides to raise the mainsail in accordance with the regulations and general rules of conduct shortly before entering the harbor and the mooring maneuver. This is how he wants to end this wonderful day. But capricious fate has decided to test his intelligence and level-headedness in the next few minutes.

The light breeze from behind is no problem for him, he just needs to roll up the main halyard with the winch, to open the stopper and slowly lower/drop the sail to its place. All routine work! But after about a meter the cable suddenly gets stuck. No problem, it's not the first time that the slide rail has come loose.

All it needs is a slight jerk upwards and the matter will clear itself up, as it always has up to now. Or maybe not? Well, this time, instead of slow raising the sail, the main halyard decides to get stuck.

All that's left to do is to take the winch handle and try to release it by force, but guess what, the main halyard decides to break leaving the mainsail in the half-lowered position with the rope disappearing deep in the mast.

Panic and careless steps are out of place here. Now you have to choose the most agile crew member, put him in the bosun's chair, bind him to the spinnaker halyard and give him the dirk/topping lift to hook it to the sailtop and solve the problem.

By the way, did we mention what a “reckless move” would be? That would be e.g. looking up without paying attention to what you are stepping on (e.g. on an open stopper handle that, without much resistance, leaves its position and remains lying lifeless on the deck, like a rodent that has just been killed!).

Now you ask yourself, what will happen next? The answer comes very quickly. A sudden, undefined noise can be heard, an indefinable clatter and clank on the port side, the same noise that was heard earlier one day while sailing when a strong blow hit us.

We are still wondering what that could have been when suddenly one of the female crew member rushes out of the cabin and excitedly informs us that some screws/nuts are falling off from the deck ceiling.

A quick look in disbelief reveals that the shroud bases resembles anything but its original form. We immediately bring down our fellow hanging above and use the spinnaker halyard to secure the mast adequately.

The sail is not folded neatly, but simply dropped and we are entering the harbor.

I ask around the marina a bit for professional help and find out that there are two proven experts for such cases. Both passionately assert that they see fixing my problems as their life's work and calling.