Fly High Mast Installation

I just bought a used BI Fly High.9no instructions) Does the strap go through the bow eye and end doubled up to the carabina? Does the base just slide over the factory pylon without any fastening? Lastly does the pole end up 90 degrees to the boat floor?

OverMyHead wrote: I am going to try a lift ring connection but I am going to take a close up of the fiberglass around the lift ring with my cell phone camera so I can monitor it for new cracking. if anything changes I will switch back to the ugly strap.

Why wait until after the gelcoat cracks? If that's the case just keep using it like that, the gelcoat isn't providing you the strength anyway. Going w/o the stap is a roll of the dice. I hated it too but now use it.

Kevin - How observant you are! We stopped using the strap because it was a big hassle rigging it on the ramp, due to interference with the bow stop. I remember a post from someone who said they pulled hard & never got cracks. We aren't hard pullers, so I am going to chance the gelcoat cracks. I looked under the deck & there is a good-sized wood block reinforcement under the ring.

So yes this isn't correct, but that's my decision.

If for a second I thought it was unsafe, I wouldn't rig it that way.

But for the record, HW is right & the site recommendation is to use the strap.

Liability issue now covered.

some (alot of) boats do not have the lift ring...thus the strap...one size fits all...William Farrell uses the lift ring for both his boom and his flyhigh...its on a malibu barefooter...and now he has the BI tower and tower extension which he hooks to the lift ring...no gel cracks yet. It's an easy and clean setup...