Replacing the Windex at the Top of the Mast in Dingle, Ireland | DrakeParagon Sailing
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Bird + Windex = A Bad Time. Is the sound of something crashing on the deck ever good? Our windex broke after a bird tried to use it as a landing pad which means it's time to go up the mast. I suppose that's one way to see the beautiful town of Dingle, Ireland!
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You need a short piece of webbing tied to your harness with a carabiner (snap link) tied at the other end. Then clip into a step about waist high. That will let you work hands free.
Locate a mountaineering shop on your next layover. I’m sure they can fix you up.
I always enjoy your posts … a little cruising … a little cooking … a little sightseeing … a little fixing up …
The best to you both … what a life journey ⛵️
Thanks for the great suggestion! :)
"Ready to go Mo?".........Go!
She didn't even look up. I think she has done this one or twice.
I'm really enjoy this channel. Safe travels.
Nicely done...always stressful going up the Mast....
Nicely done. Working aloft is such a frustration, but you succeeded.
Thank you!!! :)
Amazing stuff, so many armchair sailors talking shite! Portacloy to Dingle is my dream plan for the summer, I hope I can make it look as easy as you did!😊😊😊
Trapeze artist at the top of his game. Incredible display. Id love to be young again.
I remember some years ago you climped up that mast without a safety halyard 🙂I lost my windex 2-3 years ago and I haven't dared to go up there and put a new one yet 😕And having no mast steps is making it more scary.
Will you have someone hoist you up in bosun's chain using a halyard on a winch?
@@drakeParagon probably with a second halyard as safety.
Good job. I dropped mine one time. Landed in the water and was retrieved in one piece luckily. 🇨🇦
Another nice, down to earth video which we enjoyed 😉. It was good to see you safely back on deck. My physician wife mentioned that you need an inhaler and wonders if you have ever been checked for asthma? Your breathing sounded like mine when I forget my meds.
Hi, Thank you. I have had asthma pretty much all of my life, and I do have to manage it with regular cardio exercise and prescription medications, including inhalers.
I remember discussing mast steps with you while you were installing those in Oriental. Don’t know about you, but every time I climb the mast my hands are sore from gripping so tightly!
Oh that reminds me of a time... It's such a long story... maybe I'll tell it in full someday in a video. But in short, back in 2003 I sailed my Westsail 32 from North Carolina direct to Saint Martin. Midway I got trapped in the worst storm.. I believed that if I didn't heave to then the boat might be at risk of capsize. But the halyard came down to the deck.. I needed the halyard to heave to. So I climbed up to the top of the mast with the halyard, without time for any safety gear, in the most awful winds and seas. When I was at the very top the boat got hit by a wave, and got violently knocked over about 25 degrees. I lost my footing. And was just holding on to two mast steps with my bare hands, with my body dangling over the water... I managed it, and got back down to the deck and heaved to with a double reefed main and a backed staysail. And both my hands had big cuts in them that were bleeding all over the place. From holding on so hard for my life.
With tools I tie 550 cord to each and have secured to myself or bag at all times. Don’t put person underneath. She’s smart and got out of way. Also a piece of rope around the mast to brace you so you can work hands free? Just some thoughts.
Thanks! I think that's a great idea - to separately tie your tools to your bag. And a separate line to tie yourself to the mast at points where you're going to be working for a while.
Hi Drake, I wonder if over time the aluminum strip will rotate to one side. When you climb up to add “bird preventers”, you could drill a hole in the strip, install a screw and nut that rests against the masthead to act as an anti rotation pin. Put cable ties/zip ties on the strip with the tails sticking up to keep the birds off of the strip.
Thanks! I was wondering about that too. Interesting idea!
I think I’m going to invent a mast harness that includes a upper body harness component, you would hook into the chair , and then the rope would run through a climbing snap link on the upper part about sternum level, or maybe some kind of assembly with a brake in it, that way you can work with both hands and ( after much testing) not worry about becoming inverted and face diving into the deck
👈🏻I love bird. Excellent work! ✌🏻👶🏼🚬
You need a pocket to place the open end wrenches when you are screwing the nuts onto the bolt.
I was just keeping all of the tools in the bag, which I think was working ok.
Great heavy breathing vid ❤bravo
Sometimes climbing up to the top of that mast really makes me winded. Asthma has always been the bane of my existence. I could have spent a lot of time trying to edit all that wheezing out, but I thought it would be better to just keep it real. :)
I hope Eanna brought his Ukulele.!!!
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Hello can you please tell me what paint
You used on your mast please
My boat was going in this month, and I had to get it transported and the wagon driver hit signs on the way to wales and smashed my echo mac and other items
And left me with a few scratches on the top of my mast as it was lying down on top of the boat
Thank you
Paul 😊
I painted our mast with Awlgrip Awlcraft 2000. Here’s a video I made about it. ruclips.net/video/BPt9JOzCAaI/видео.htmlsi=xldqro1EGcvgM-Cy
Your method of climbing the is utterly unsafe. No persons under you and your tools at any time, use a proper bosun chair, secure your self with one line *and* use a safety line. If you can not meet those criteria, a Windex is not worth killing or dying for....
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At least this was an improvement from when we had to fix the mast in Greenland, where the moral of the video was "DON'T BE DRAKE! CLIP IN!" -> ruclips.net/video/ZLnYwF1mbqk/видео.htmlsi=0s_cpbzOdmADkpr8
Brother, please start taking better care of yourself.
Hi @ThatSandersboy, Thank you! But so you know, I think I do have a pretty healthy lifestyle. I workout at the gym with heavy weights and jog outside regularly, and am pretty active with a lot of long walking and dinghy rowing trips. I don’t smoke, don’t drink excessively, and generally keep to a pretty healthy and balanced diet (protein+carbo+vegetables and little to no processed/junk food).
But I also have asthma, and have for all of my life, which means that sometimes I’m breathless and you can hear me wheezing. It’s something I deal with and manage with my doctor and through my lifestyle.
For the interest of the story I don’t always include me with my inhaler, but that is something that I use as part of my management.
Just as a reminder, what we see on YT isn’t always the full picture.
When you're hanging on the halyard at the mast head working with both hands you need an additional method to secure yourself
I had steps and used a bosn's chair on the halyard and a harness with a safety clip that I could fasten.
Moral of this video is "DON'T BE DRAKE! CLIP IN!" -> ruclips.net/video/ZLnYwF1mbqk/видео.htmlsi=0s_cpbzOdmADkpr8
@drakeParagon
I wonder if a windex is actually needed?
If your heading is the priority, then you’d set your sails accordingly (regardless of where the windex is pointing). I guess what I’m saying is your sails will dictate if you have to pull them in or let them out. Perhaps the windex might be useful in very light wind. Am I missing something?
I teach sailing. When I’m out practising with students, I often find that they tend to look up to see where the wind is coming from instead of feeling the wind on their face. Of course looking at what the sails are doing is another factor (luffing).
I don’t know …. I just feel like a windex is pretty much useless.
Great video. Thanks!
Hi Robert, thanks! I think that the windex becomes more and more useful as the length and displacement of the boat increase. In a smaller boat, any little change in the wind direction and strength can be felt immediately, and any change you make to heading or sails can also be felt immediately. I love sailing in small boats because it almost feels like I'm a part of the boat, where I can sense everything that's happening. But in a 40,000 lb displacement, full keel boat that's 55 feet length overall, I can't get that same kind of feedback. And especially in pitch black overnight sailing, and in rough weather conditions, and with me being shielded from the wind in our cockpit enclosure, I think it's way easier to just look at a wind direction instrument to instantly figure out what's going on.