gennaker halyard

[Greg]

I skied my gennaker halyard the other day. Any advice on how to get
it rethreaded through the mast?

Thanks,

Greg

[Terry Goertz]

Hey Greg,

This happened to me last year (and this year I lost my jib halyard!). 
To rethread the halyards I used a "fishing pole".  The kind that you find at Home Depot for fishing wires through walls. To rethread the jib halyard, I used a snake line or fishing line.  It's a metal wire on a spool and again is normally used for threading wires in your house. This worked much better as it's got some flexibility.

It's a bit pricey, but something like this would work.
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?jspStoreDir=hdus&catalogId=10053&productId=100625348&navFlow=3&keyword=snake%2Bwire&langId=-1&searchRedirect=snake+wire&storeId=10051&endecaDataBean=com.homedepot.sa.el.wc.catalog.beans.EndecaDataBean%4059a3ee8c&ddkey=THDStoreFinder

Good luck!

Terry

[Greg]

Hi Terry,

Thanks for the help. I tried a friend's fish tape, but couldn't get
it around the pulley near the mast head. Perhaps with a lighter more
flexible one I would have had more luck. I will keep my eye out for
one in hardware stores from now on. Tonight my wife and I managed to
use a fishing line with some lead sinkers on the end. It was a dicey
proposition, but we did it! Now back to sailing. Happy summer!

Thanks again,

Greg