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bartmac wrote:Going the other way....I've actually raised my mast carrying both at the rear and front so that the mast does not interfere with our dodger and biminis and front hatch...on the road or on the water we can easily climb up use the cockpit put the dodger & 2 biminis up...makes our Mac more useable however the mast is 3.3m off the ground at the back

SeaSaw's PO (previous owner) had a mast crutch extension made (about 2 extra feet) so that he could drop the mast but leave it stepped. He did a lot of travelling in Ontario's Trent-Severn Waterway, so he would be raising and lowering it regularly.

We tried the same leaving the mast steeped but not really successfully as the dodger & biminis can't stay up...anyway the mast then sticks a long way out the back of the Mac...lots of leverage.Our raised arch frame at the rear is more than 2 feet above the normal mast crutch...allows for headroom with the mast down.We also have sailed in rivers where bridges mean a mast down is required but as we are more boaties than sailors sometime leave it down when we know another bridge is ahead