From a nearby shed the fifty-foot carbon fiber mast, with its complex arrangement of ropes and wires, was wheeled to the base of a huge crane. The crane operator positioned the heavy chain that hung down over ten stories from the crane’s boom.  Bill Pendleton, the rigger, grabbed the chain’s enormous hook and secured it to the mast.

Slowly, the operator raised the mast then turned the crane.  When the mast hovered over Scherherazade,  the rigger and others in the crew raced to the sail boat’s deck to snag it on board, position it and attach it to the boat.