Installing Spin Halyard
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Spin Halyard for H-34
Here is what mine looks like, Gary.. Block attached to the masthead crane loop, internal lead for the halyard.. exits through a sheave in the mast base, through the deck organizer to a rope clutch.. Probably easier to pull the mast to do this work. If you don't want the halyard internally run, it can be led down from the top block to a turning block on the deck then back to the cockpit. Mast base picture shows this .. My two jib halyards exit above the mast base and go to a swiveling mast-mounted block then back to the deck organizers
Here is what mine looks like, Gary.. Block attached to the masthead crane loop, internal lead for the halyard.. exits through a sheave in the mast base, through the deck organizer to a rope clutch.. Probably easier to pull the mast to do this work. If you don't want the halyard internally run, it can be led down from the top block to a turning block on the deck then back to the cockpit. Mast base picture shows this .. My two jib halyards exit above the mast base and go to a swiveling mast-mounted block then back to the deck organizers
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I agree with internal.. It is possible, I am told, to fish the halyard down, but installing the stainless fairlead http://www.mauriprosailing.com/us/1-Schaefer-Exit-Plates/SCH3446.html
at the correct angle and position to stop chafe is something much more easily done on the ground.
at the correct angle and position to stop chafe is something much more easily done on the ground.
I had riggers do mine when they were installing my roller furling. They went up in a climbing seat and dropped a very thin cord, about the size of this "o" (with 5-6 nuts tied on it) down the mast. By removing the fairlead at the bottom of the mast (a couple of bolts) they pulled it out and spliced in the halyard. Pulled the spin halyard up with the cord and reattached the fairlead. Maybe 15-30 mins of work. But they were already up the mast.
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