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Block for flag hoist on mast spreader
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Re: Block for flag hoist on mast spreader
Capt Hook
s/v Kumbaya
Cape Dory 31, Hull No. 73
New Orleans, LA
s/v Kumbaya
Cape Dory 31, Hull No. 73
New Orleans, LA
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Re: Block for flag hoist on mast spreader
Roberto
I use two small harken bullet blocks for my flag halyards. The one in the photo is $14 at WM. I think I bought them at Jamestown Distributors for $9. You can also use a small schafer micro block as well. My spreader is a little different than the stock rig rite spreaders. I bet you can drill and tap a small pad eye onto the underside of the spreader. Typically you locate the pad eye about 1/4 - 1/3 inboard of the tip of the spreader. Don't forget to lube the threads of the fasteners with some anti galvanic paste. I use tef-gel.
One block would work fine. By using two I can hoist my radar reflector and it won't chafe on the halyard. I fly the Q flag and host nation flags on the starboard spreader and the radar reflector on the port spreader flag halyard. I use 3/16" - 1/4" double braid Dacron line for the halyards.
John
I use two small harken bullet blocks for my flag halyards. The one in the photo is $14 at WM. I think I bought them at Jamestown Distributors for $9. You can also use a small schafer micro block as well. My spreader is a little different than the stock rig rite spreaders. I bet you can drill and tap a small pad eye onto the underside of the spreader. Typically you locate the pad eye about 1/4 - 1/3 inboard of the tip of the spreader. Don't forget to lube the threads of the fasteners with some anti galvanic paste. I use tef-gel.
One block would work fine. By using two I can hoist my radar reflector and it won't chafe on the halyard. I fly the Q flag and host nation flags on the starboard spreader and the radar reflector on the port spreader flag halyard. I use 3/16" - 1/4" double braid Dacron line for the halyards.
John
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Re: Block for flag hoist on mast spreader
John S.:
Thank you. I will stop at WM and check out the Harken blocks.
Thank you. I will stop at WM and check out the Harken blocks.
Fair winds,
Roberto
a/k/a Sea Hunt "The Tadpole Sailor"
CDSOA #1097
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Roberto
a/k/a Sea Hunt "The Tadpole Sailor"
CDSOA #1097
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"I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way." Captain John Paul Jones, 16 November 1778, as quoted in Naval History and Heritage Command, http://www.history.navy.mil