How to safely TAKE DOWN the MAST on a SAILBOAT

[@utubefroggy]

Excellent, having a properly trained crew on the crane was good, having an expert boat owner, priceless.

[@fransdriesen1311]

This video, documenting a textbook mast removal was very well narrated ...Congratulations for a job well done

[@southerntexashomestead5028]

Great job Magic Carpet. My stomach was in knotts watching the mast coming down. Great job. ♡

[@ddd228]

Complex operation!

[@leenova9087]

Beautifully narrated Miss!

[@danalloyd1733]

Good looking boat. Nice tutorial, thank you!

[@vraymond108]

Having gone through this before on our boat, several years ago, it was a great review. It all happened so fast my head was a blur. Thanks again and looking forward to the trip heading north.

[@SoundzAlive1]

Very good tutorial especially for the first timers. Pity they came early as would have said excellent. Keep up this tutorial format as you guys have done such a good job. André

[@billfromgermany]

We remove our mast every winter, so I thought I knew it all!😉 But, confirming that you can never know everything about sailing, I learnt some very useful tips. Thank you! Have a good canal trip.

[@scarletbegonias2359]

Luv it, I'm detail oriented and I really appreciate others when they are too.

[@andypennybrown6848]

Very professionally done and explained crew!

[@viking8889]

I did this without a crane in a remote location (a wire for the mainsail broke inside the mast). I left the pin in at the step, loosened the forestay, then gradually let out the forestay as the mast tipped back and someone else stood under the mast to ease it down onto the deck. We put it back up after the repairs the same way. We put the pin in, one guy lifted the mast up and another pulled on the forestay from the dock in front of the boat. My mast was aluminum so it was relatively light weight.

[@aleks71438]

Where did you do it? Do you have a video or pictures

[@viking8889]

@@aleks71438 no sorry. I did it back in the days of camcorders and film cameras. Social media wasn’t even a thing. The good ol’ days.

[@2410jrod]

I just got a new ship it’s a hunter. I am learning, and this helped out greatly. Thank you so much

[@vincentbarkley9121]

Great video. I've never seen this operation in full. Thank you.

[@1014TOMCAT]

As always, a very good video. Interesting procedure, taking down the mast.

[@angeloattard9748]

very interesting ....excellent description i will be going through this process this season or next depending on the duration of the present lockdown.

[@paulrichardson6804]

Perfect, about to lower mast on our Raven 26 to do work, excellent guide on how to do it safely

[@Bernar2able]

Agree, very well documented.

[@TheSmartodd]

Thank you very much - for an absolute novice, this was very clear!

[@coreyfeldon9547]

Wonderful detail. Your video will be very vital in my successful de-masting. Looking forward to exploring your channel more :)

[@sailingcitrinesunset4065]

I have a trailer sailor so I do this every time I take the boat out! The luxury of only doing this once a year lol

[@thomaswhaley4024]

thanks for demystifying the demastifying process :-) Enjoy the lockdown!

[@emreg89]

Thx for imformation ✌

[@MalawisLilleKanal]

Potential idea - Instead of measuring all the turnbuckles, mark each one with their position on the boat, and use some nail-polish on the thread to know where to stop to get correct tension when putting it back in service.

[@jananderson4088]

We love seeing your videos

[@nextworld9176]

Perfect vid. Good lesson.

[@38below39]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing take care

[@mikewillis2934]

Very instructive. Thanks

[@sartorst3376]

Duct tape sticky side out is a quick way to secure lines ect to he mast at intervals as needed

[@victor_osiris]

nice, thank you guys

[@dianseib818]

Very interesting, thxs 😀

[@NikoWulff]

hihi the same electrical outlet as with my vindö I'm just thinking about a swan neck, but than came corona and all my boat repair dreams vanish ... LG Niko

[@SailingMagicCarpet]

That would be s good looking alternative i agree! Lucky we are on the boat then and i get to do some work now:) But its hard to get tools and material so i have to work with what i have. Best of luck Aladino

[@bartvanderveere7592]

Very informative and complete. More things to think about than I did so far. I see that you secured your a-frame at the front afterwards, or am I wrong? Never heard of securities in the spanners, I will look for them. Did you use someting like WD40 to lubricate the spanners before losening, or were they loose? Good idea to measure the length of the spanners. Thank you.

[@robertfakler8564]

That was most interesting.

[@urlkrueger]

Retitle: How to turn a sailboat into a motor vessel. Should you ever get financially strapped you could always use this video to present yourselves to corporations as instructional video cinematographers/narrators.

[@jforsman10]

Superb.

[@bassaddikt89]

What did you do about your keel? Or are Europe's rivers all deep enough?

[@donmoore481]

Did you make the 30 minute 100€ mark, or did it go inti overtime???

[@SailingMagicCarpet]

We made it with time to spare!

[@amso9]

Very nicely explained. So How much was crane bill all together?

[@SailingMagicCarpet]

100 euros :) we made the half hour mark with time to spare!

[@sebastianreitz]

Are these Swiss Army glasses? Look really classy ;-) Greets from Switzerland.

[@SailingMagicCarpet]

Hahaha yesss they are - good eye 🧐😉

[@nixl3518]

As you lowered the mast you cut the video and somehow the loop that attached the mast to the crane's hook appeared to be above the spreaders. Interesting trick! Care to explain how you did that?? :)

[@lmcognitio2049]

It sounds more complicated than it looks. Who was the guy in the red T-shirt? 🤔 ... Interesting video

[@bartvanderveere7592]

.. and: demastifying is a great word! Some questions, did you know the weight of your mast and did you make the frames accordingly? Is your draft okay for the canals? What is your draft? Oh, I'm probably #597 to ask: what type Yanmar do you have?

[@nixl3518]

You must not know that they already came down south thru the canals 2 seasons ago. They had all that stuff figured out before leaving the boatyard back then in CH.

[@bartvanderveere7592]

@@nixl3518 Okay, thank you.

[@SailingMagicCarpet]

We’re not engineers, so no we didn’t build the frames to hold the exact weight of the mast. We just built something which seems sturdy enough, and it was. Our draft is 1m40. In smaller rivers we occasionally hit bottom but not too bad. I think technically 1m60 is the MAXIMUM draft for most canals.

[@bartvanderveere7592]

@@SailingMagicCarpet Okay, thanks for your information.

[@TimsBitsnPieces]

Just curious is there a preference as to which way the mast lays when removed? you have it with the bottom of the mast at the bow and the tip of the mast at the stern. I've seen it here in Australia with the top of the mast at the bow. Stay safe and happy travels, fair winds and calm seas. ;)

[@SailingMagicCarpet]

No, I don’t think it really matters!

[@TimsBitsnPieces]

@@SailingMagicCarpet Ok thanks.

[@steveholton4130]

Watching this video leads me to believe I've been doing it wrong in two major details. 1. I've always left the turn-buckles connected to the shrouds, not the chain plates and 2. we've always laid the stick butt aft and head forward. Please explain why you do the reverse. sdh in CT, U.S.A.

[@SailingMagicCarpet]

Don't worry Steve, neither of these are major details at all. You can do either. We choose to take the turnbuckles off completely, but it's up to you. Also, the direction the mast is facing when it's horizontal on the boat makes no real difference.

[@geopro0780]

I wonder why they chose to have the front x frame holding the mast so high off the deck?

[@SailingMagicCarpet]

It’s a lot easier to move around on deck underneath it :)

[@guilhermefurgler8866]

This video was released in april 7th. What is the real date of it? When did you took of the mast and started the trip through europe going north. In the preveous episod you said 2018? is that right?

[@SailingMagicCarpet]

The last video, which was the season trailer, says the exact date in it. We started the journey on November 16th 2019.

[@guilhermefurgler8866]

Ok, for some reason, i understood 2018..... Keep safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

[@faircompetition1203]

Tip , never stand under anything being lifted by a crane , just in case .

[@TheClangerseatGreenSoup]

and for a wooden solid mast...

[@Chr.U.Cas1622]

Uhm, maybe you should buy a boat with a foldable mast (like a folding rule) next time!? LOL ;-) :-) Just kidding of course! Best regards, luck and health.

[@scuavs3932]

Take pics instead of using pen and paper

[@anandarochisha]

All of those yachties watching with a 6 foot or more draft, know that mast or no mast..the French Canals to be an impossible dream..

[@nixl3518]

If they really want to go up there, they'll just get a boat made for the canals.

[@anandarochisha]

@@nixl3518 Yes of course You are right. I have had that thought myself. Stay Healthy.

[@bigninja2]

I bet they send men to help so they spend less time on the job and go to the next one. (30 mins. instead of 1 hr.)