[MHml] Bi plane rigs.

[Robert]

I guess I see the tilting as being done on the trailer where adding a pivot
and a lever with maybe a line to a trailer winch adding no weight to the
boat. What I like about the expanding trailer is you can make your changes
very agro (read cheap and easy) and heavy with no effect to the weight of
the boat.  Really how much easier could you make the mast raising if you had
the hull and cradle pivot, insert mast horizontally, then crank the trailer
winch till vertical?  None of that sway side to side, or strain halfway up
when the guys snag.
At least that is what I see in my mind when I picture the process :-)

Robert


-----Original Message-----
 At 11:09 PM 9/3/06, you wrote:
>That is not the way I read his comments.  More like "W" than a tacking
Harry
>proa.  Build only one mast, one mast base,  one sail, put storage equal to
>the mast weight including the structure in the opposite hull and now you
>have a free standing rig with all of its advantages such as being able to
>insert the mast with the hull on its side,

         Not sure I see that as an advantage, one then has to lift 
the mast and rotate the hull all at the same time, which seems more 
daunting than ever.