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dlandersson wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 2:51 am Don't feel bad. I use the MRS and need two extra people to get the mast in it's mount.

I'm almost always raising my mast alone. My mast crutch is on the pedestal so if yours is on the transom this may not work.

With the baby stays attached I can roll the mast all the way aft until the baby stays are fully extended. I turn around, face the bow and straddle the mast. Next I sit down on the end of the mast and scoot it the last little bit back into the step and insert the rear bolt. Easy-Peasy.

Hmmm ... my cructh is on the pedestal too. Perhaps next spring you can show me how you do it?

Be Free wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 1:50 pm

dlandersson wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 2:51 am Don't feel bad. I use the MRS and need two extra people to get the mast in it's mount.

I'm almost always raising my mast alone. My mast crutch is on the pedestal so if yours is on the transom this may not work.

With the baby stays attached I can roll the mast all the way aft until the baby stays are fully extended. I turn around, face the bow and straddle the mast. Next I sit down on the end of the mast and scoot it the last little bit back into the step and insert the rear bolt. Easy-Peasy.

Hi Be Free!

Thanks for pointing that out. That is a good observation.

The MRS is what came with the boat when we bought it.
Not sure if it’s an original version but it fits and works well to the fwd stay plate.
It fits and works pretty good.
It sorta makes sense to use the fwd stay plate as it was designed to carry loads higher than that of raising the mast.

While we primarily use Over Easy as a motor cruiser given our preference to explore rivers and estuaries where a mast proves to be inconvenient (or hazardous) I have practiced with using the MRS a couple of times.

All that said I’ve also raised and lowered the mast manually without much issue as well and is retrospect sorta prefer that option.
(That is subject to change as the years progress ).

One of the future mods that I’d like to accomplish is a hard Dodger and a tabernacle/pintle post arrangement for the mast.
That would allow us the travel with the mast at 6’6” (+) above the cockpit deck and level horizontally while in transit both on water and on road. This would allow for a somewhat shorter aft overhang by a foot or two while on the water with the mast down, allow for elimination of the height of the angled mast, and give me headroom in the cockpit/companionway.
(I’ve made sketches of both and how they would work together but there are other projects that have the priority for now.)

But as said, that’s for another day….
Again, Thanks!

Best Regards,
Over Easy

I believe this is the exact attachment just forward if my forward cleat, branding and all.

https://www.boatid.com/windline/4-l-x-1 ... -al-1.html

And I am seeing on their site anchor rollers that look very similar to mine:

https://www.boatid.com/windline/anchors/

Thanks to all for pointing me in the right direction. I would have never guessed that was for an anchor chain.