I found on here somewhere Matt's suggestion for solo mast stepping: "The wave comes with an extra long halyard to allow you to hook it to the bridle eye strap on the bow. Once you step the mast you pull the halyard tight and tie to the downhaul cleat. This would hold it upright so you can step off the trampoline and pin the forestay."
I used the bridle eye strap on the "starboard" bow (hull), pulled tight (I thought) and tied to the downhaul cleat. Something went wrong ... before just trusting everything I was still bracing the mast and I tried moving it bit and found it would completely fall over on the starboard side if I wasn't holding the mast up...so I'm doing something wrong. Is it because it's over far to the right using the bridal eye strap and not centred like the real forestay is? Should I add another pin to the adjuster on the bridal and attach the main halyard to that? Did I not pull it tight enough? Like should I be really tightening this like HARD!
Suggestions on where I went wrong?
I'm also interested in hearing other methods for solo stepping the mast.