Abortive Trip Up the Mast

Today was to be the day that we fitted our lovely new LED tricolour light up the mast. Of course, to do that you have to get up the mast and remove the old one first before even thinking of getting the new one on.

It is only about forty feet up but it feels like a very long way when you are up there!

The frustrating thing is that I could not get high enough up to see how to detach the old one. A bosuns chair has a strop which brings the bottom of the hoist point to about eye level which meant the top of the mast was about a foot above the top of my head and everything had to be done by feel. There is no wind at the moment so it was also getting very hot up there and I had to admit defeat and come back down.

Hopefully a dig around the recesses of the intertube thing will find some suggestions! In the meantime, have a laugh at my backside encased in an orange bosuns chair.