I taped a long stick onto Touche's main halyard.  I taped a 100 foot tape
to the top of the stick.  I hauled the stick up and adjusted the hoist
until the tape was even with the bird spike on my Windex.  Then I swung the
tape to the water.  ~50 feet.  Touche's VHF antenna is another couple feet.

  --
Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 12:43 PM ALAN BERGEN via CnC-List <
cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:

> Don't rely on calculations. I ran a tape up the mast using the main
> halyard, added the measured distance from the base of the mast to the
> waterline, and added five feet to allow for the distance from the top of
> the halyard to the top of the antenna in order to give me an accurate
> measurement.
>
> Alan Bergen
> 35 Mk III Thirsty
> Rose City YC
> Portland, OR
>
>
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