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TRAILER: Going Aloft with Brion Toss
August 29, 2024 · 2 min · 1K views · Port Townsend
What this video covers
Brion Toss, a professional rigger based in Port Townsend, Washington, introduces a instructional program on going aloft safely.0:18 He acknowledges that mast climbing is exhilarating but carries real danger — one sailors too often underestimate — and cites accidents caused by ignoring those risks.0:35 The program covers procedures, techniques, and tools for working aloft more safely, efficiently, and comfortably.0:56 Toss frames each trip aloft as improvised acrobatics combined with engineering, and positions the viewer's own experience and judgment as the element that makes the techniques work.1:05 The trailer ends with a brief demonstration of lowering from the mast, including verbal signals between crew.1:26
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