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Posted by Pwirth
on 5/25/2009, 5:24 pm, in reply to "Advice--spinnaker rigging?"
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It sounds like your halyards are twisted inside the mast. You'll need to pull off the heel on the mast and check it out with a small flashlight that you can run down the inside of the mast while keeping your lines tight. Also you spinnaker halyard should be running through a turning block. I've used electrican's fish tape to feed in new lines. It works well you just need a little patence and good lighting.
Peter
USA 14968
--Previous Message--
: Folks-
:
: I have one of those old Proctor
: masts with internal running of the
: spinnaker halyard. The spinnaker
: halyard comes out of the mast above
: the forestay through a little hole.
:
: The problem is this---even using a
: very thin line, the spinnaker
: halyard often fouls the main head as
: I raise the main sail. Lovely.
:
: Can't raise the main and I have to
: then unstep the mast to make the
: spinnaker halyard happy and running
: free.
:
: Does anyone have a suggestion that
: doesn't involve drilling yet another
: hole in an old mast?
:
: Bill
:
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