Pls explain how you use your non-marine
electric winch for getting up your
mast. Are you using it to simply replace your
deck winch and have someone else operate it at
deck level? Are you wearing a harness or sitting on a Bosuns chair of some kind and the winch and
battery rises up the
mast with you?
I have been assembling a frame that consists of a a vertical bar to which a seat us attached. A second shelf is under the seat on which a
battery sits. The winch is attached in that area and the cable is fed up the vertical bar and through an eye at the top, at about eye level or slightly higher when seated - so everything, including my weight, is below that level. By pressing the control button, I hope it will winch me up my mast.
Before anyone freaks out about this failing and me falling, the winch is rated at 2,000 lbs, and I would use a
safety line that is double wrapped around the mast - like I always do - and slides up and down the mast with me and would prevent falling. My wife will be the observer.
The only wrinkle I see is that it might not get me quite high enough to get to
repairs at the mast-head.
I dont know why I have never seen any reference to this simple set-up before as is not rocket science or very costly! Or have others done a similar thing? Surely there would me a ready market for a commercially-made version for riggers etc?
Cheers, R.