My Typhoon has been rigged with a roller furling genny for many years, and the jib halyard, being unnecessary, has long since been removed. I recently acquired a Genniker and will be needing the jib halyard again. My question is how to snake a new halyard down through the mast and out the block at the base. A string with a weight would go down the mast nicely, but it would be difficult to extract the weight through the very small opening at the block. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any ideas? The boat is under cover (and many inches of snow), but if I recall correctly the very bottom of the mast where it meets the tabernacle is covered. Is this truly the case? If not, it would be a very easy project and since no boat project is as easy as expected, I feel safe assuming that it is.
Thanks,
-Mitch
mitchfeeney@yahoo. com
New Ty jib halyard
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sloopjohnl
Re: New Ty jib halyard
not knowing the year of your ty this is a guess according to my '76. the base of the mast is open allowing easy access to run halyards. there is a guide at the bottom to insure the halyards exit the mast at the cutout just above the bottom. i would think a light line and weight(fishing line weight) would work as a messenger to reave a new halyard. i have used an electrician's fish (flat wire) in the past to do my halyards.
Mitch wrote: My Typhoon has been rigged with a roller furling genny for many years, and the jib halyard, being unnecessary, has long since been removed. I recently acquired a Genniker and will be needing the jib halyard again. My question is how to snake a new halyard down through the mast and out the block at the base. A string with a weight would go down the mast nicely, but it would be difficult to extract the weight through the very small opening at the block. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any ideas? The boat is under cover (and many inches of snow), but if I recall correctly the very bottom of the mast where it meets the tabernacle is covered. Is this truly the case? If not, it would be a very easy project and since no boat project is as easy as expected, I feel safe assuming that it is.
Thanks,
-Mitch
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Ken Coit
Re: New Ty jib halyard
Mitch,
If your string is long enough, you ought to be able to use a small hook to fish a portion of the string at the weighted end out through the lower block without the weight, pull a full mast length plus of string down the mast and through the block, then attach a messenger and pull it and the weight back up the mast. Then you use the messenger to pull the new halyard down the mast and through the block.
Of course you could also pull the stick and do all this with both feet on the ground.
Have fun, but be sure to keep on sailing,
Ken
CD/36 Parfait
Raleigh, NC
PPPPparfait@nc.rr.com
If your string is long enough, you ought to be able to use a small hook to fish a portion of the string at the weighted end out through the lower block without the weight, pull a full mast length plus of string down the mast and through the block, then attach a messenger and pull it and the weight back up the mast. Then you use the messenger to pull the new halyard down the mast and through the block.
Of course you could also pull the stick and do all this with both feet on the ground.
Have fun, but be sure to keep on sailing,
Ken
CD/36 Parfait
Raleigh, NC
Mitch wrote: My Typhoon has been rigged with a roller furling genny for many years, and the jib halyard, being unnecessary, has long since been removed. I recently acquired a Genniker and will be needing the jib halyard again. My question is how to snake a new halyard down through the mast and out the block at the base. A string with a weight would go down the mast nicely, but it would be difficult to extract the weight through the very small opening at the block. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any ideas? The boat is under cover (and many inches of snow), but if I recall correctly the very bottom of the mast where it meets the tabernacle is covered. Is this truly the case? If not, it would be a very easy project and since no boat project is as easy as expected, I feel safe assuming that it is.
Thanks,
-Mitch
PPPPparfait@nc.rr.com
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Serge Zimberoff
Re: New Ty jib halyard
Mitch,
You of course checked, as I did not when I got my genniker, that it is cut for the fractional rig of the internal halyard, yes? Mentioning it just in case.
Serge
Ty #1700
'Cloning Around'
serge@srtrop.com
You of course checked, as I did not when I got my genniker, that it is cut for the fractional rig of the internal halyard, yes? Mentioning it just in case.
Serge
Ty #1700
'Cloning Around'
serge@srtrop.com
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sloopjohnl
Re: New Ty jib halyard
serge,
did you have the sail recut? try to fly it as a masthead sail? sell it or dispose of it some other way?
i know that the daysailer model can fly a masthead spinnaker and gennaker because it is masthead rigged for that, but i've wondered lately if a weekender model could fly a masthead-rigged asymmetrical
cruising spinnaker since it does have a backstay or would we need running backstays added also?
did you have the sail recut? try to fly it as a masthead sail? sell it or dispose of it some other way?
i know that the daysailer model can fly a masthead spinnaker and gennaker because it is masthead rigged for that, but i've wondered lately if a weekender model could fly a masthead-rigged asymmetrical
cruising spinnaker since it does have a backstay or would we need running backstays added also?
Serge Zimberoff wrote: Mitch,
You of course checked, as I did not when I got my genniker, that it is cut for the fractional rig of the internal halyard, yes? Mentioning it just in case.
Serge
Ty #1700
'Cloning Around'