What takes 4 cranes, 40 staff and over 8 hours to complete?

[Yachtworker]

Unstepping M5's mast:

Taken from the Pendennis press release: "The 45 tonnes mast required a total of four cranes to coordinate the lift, including use of one of the UK’s tallest cranes. It took 16 Lorries to deliver these massive pieces of equipment to Falmouth. The largest crane with a boom length of 104m (that’s twice the length of Nelson’s column) lifted the mast itself, with two further cranes supporting the forestays with an additional crane required for the tail of the mast. Local company Macsalvors provided two of these and further coordinated the hire of two specialist cranes from Ainscough."





All photos credit Pendennis Shipyard.

[mickrick]

Wow! Just Wow!

[danyeates]

Seen it waiting to be demasted there. Amazing! 45 tonnes though! Surprised how heavy it is.

[gazapc]

bloody huge thing, caught a glimpse of them lifting it out but had to go

nice video here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-1787...

[Yachtworker]

Thats a good video thanks, I work for the Shipyard but down in the Med so I missed out on all the fun! I know that she was docked down on Friday in her new home for the next 12 months.

[Vlad the Imp]

How disappointing, I was expecting some sort of convoluted light bulb changing joke.