Sailing Catamaran mast climb and Rig Check. We climb the mast on our sailing catamaran In this video we show how we go up the 12 metres mast of 'Double Trouble'. Safety is paramount and we always use a main and backup line as well as a good harness and rope handling techniques. Jo supervises from the deck while I go up the mast and check for chafe and wear of the various stays, rigging attachments, ropes and electronics that make up our mast. Fortunately there is not too much to worry about this time, so it is another job ticked off the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ☕️ Want to Buy us a Coffee? Support our videos: https://ko-fi.com/sailingdoubletrouble 🌎 Blogs and updates on the website: http://sailingdoubletrouble.com/ 💁🏼‍♀️ Photos and real time stuff here: https://www.facebook.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 📷 Random Travel Pics and updates: https://www.instagram.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 👉Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👩‍❤️‍👨About us : Hello and welcome to our channel! We are Jo and Rob and we are here to share our sailing adventures with you. In 2016, inspired by the likes of ‘Delos’, ‘Sailing La Vagabonde’ and ‘Gone with The Wynns’, we sold up everything we owned and bought our 40ft, Fountaine Pajot ‘Lipari 41 Evo’ sailing catamaran ‘Double Trouble’. We had no sailing experience whatsoever, so the past few years have been a huge learning curve. We thought it might be fun to document our travels for anyone thinking of following a similar lifestyle. So far we have visited 7 different countries and sailed over 13,000 nautical miles. We have had many unique experiences that would not have been possible in our prior life and we don’t regret a second. We're both super keen on protecting our precious environment, so amongst other things, we both follow a plant based diet. You wont find any fishing footage on this channel! Subscribe now and join us as we continue our salty travels around the world. https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 👏Credits: Thanks to 'Shure ' microphones for voiceover sound. 🎼Music: DT Theme tune - 'Happy' by MBB https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/g6swHZbWtRc 🎧Other Music: Epidemic Sound Library #sailingdoubletrouble

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there we go today we're gonna go and

check our wind instruments and generally

we haven't determined we haven't checked

anything up there in the last six or

seven months I've done a few miles so

it's probably just a good

your thing to chant against it

so the first job was to release this

which is the topping lift and that has

basically dropped the boom down because

we are going to use two lines to get

rock to the top of a mass we always use

the safety we're going to use the main

halyard and the topping with popping

lift is the blue line at the back of the

boom pole sit them up to see we drop the

boom down

it says you want a fender just to keep

it off the roof the topping lift goes

through the back plate and we've already

replaced this once and it used to have a

metal shackle just here and it used to

nibble and wear away at this aluminium

plate so I've just put a bit of Dyneema

with a bit of out of braid just that's

just to stop chafe of the actual Dyneema

and after nearly eight nine months this

is still pretty much good as new

it's it's a really good solution and

it's working a lot better than the metal

on aluminium D shackle that we had in

there before rob has just untied the

topping lift from the boom yeah this is

a new line it's a 12 mil one that we

just had to put on so it's more than

capable of taking my weight and it means

that for our halyard which we've got

running through this this is also a

Dyneema line but it's just a bit more

fiddly to connect to because it's going

through this loop so we're still connect

to it

but walk or run run this one is our main

line Holly it will be back online

yes I can say we always

but these are the other bad boys we're

going to be using this morning these are

our marriage saver what they call

marriages over headsets their Bluetooth

headsets so I can be down here Rock will

be up the top of the mast and we can

talk without the use of hand signals in

the kind of gesturing just adjusting his

harness

yeah we do have the bosun's chair but

Rob's going past the yeah well I want I

want to get above the mast and have a

look at the of the connections on the

very top plate and with this connection

point I can I can get just a little bit

higher than I can with the bow so chance

actually this all that locket or what

especially just about

it's only reason I like it just pinches

in all the right places so now the next

stage is just to set up the line so what

we're going to do is we're going to take

the topping lift onto the electric winch

that's gonna be the main line the best

and then we're going to put the halyard

onto our winch that we normally have a

fairly normal and they're both gonna run

through the East Germans as well just

for safety

going through the background all set

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so we've just started an engine

basically cuz we're going to be using

the electric winch and the sun's only

just come up so we don't want to pull

too much power too much pressure on the

battery so yeah we're ready to go

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so just at the top attachment for the

states and just having a quick look at

how they're all connected making sure

all the pins are still in and there's no

chafe we have a little bit of chafe

happening on the Genoa had it just where

it's running through the mast but to

shave so here I'm just checking all work

through here that there's no loose wires

we've got good pins up here which we

have it should this is all very nice

there is a little bit of chafe just

where this runs through in here so we'll

have a look at that but we can do that

from the deck thing else is looking

pretty good

so we're at the top of the mast so as

you can see with this harness I can

actually sit up now here and see the top

so this is the connection that is used

for wind instruments and I've just

checked that that's all fine there's no

water anything leaking in it's an enemy

a barrel connector basically so all I

can do is just check that there's

nothing leaking or getting in moisturize

while I'm here I'm just going to just

check that our VHF aerial is good all

the other bits and pieces up here

they're all looking pretty good this is

where our main halyard is and that's all

secure and that these sheets are all

sitting here with no

wear or tear and everything is tight so

yeah that's looking pretty good

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