Halyards
PaulMW
I am enjoying my newly-acquired Pearson 323, appreciating the boats
many good design elements and seaworthiness, but I am puzzled about my
running rigging setup, specifically the halyards. I will be going up
the mast soon, which will answer some of these questions, but in the
meantime I wondered if anybody had any comments, to better help me
prepare/think things through.
I have (right now) a simple sailing setup, with two halyards - jib and
main, wire/rope (self-furling jib).
When I got the boat, both halyards seemed to be too long - with the
sails up, the wire was wrapping around the winches (original, still on
the mast) and even onto the cleat. Well, I though, no problem;
shorten the wire by resplicing (always wanted to try and splice a rope
to wire) or cutting shorter at the sail head side. But wait - as I
checked things out, it seems the masthead sheaves seem to be only big
enough to accommodate the wire (as I said, I have not been up there to
check) - so if I shorten the wire, the halyard end will be dangling
~6' above the deck when the sail is down, as the rope part of the line
hits the masthead.....any observations? The owner may have modded the
masthead, but it seems an odd thing to do...
The second point worries me more: As I looked up the mast, I noticed
what seemed to be notches cut into the spreaders (especially forward
side). It looked as if the wire mainsail halyard had worn a groove
into the starboard spreader...but then I noticed a similar notch,
perhaps not so deep, on the port spreader. (photo attached - don't ask
about the speaker (!), it's coming down....) So my question is - are
these notches a design "feature"
allowing the halyards to have a clean run down the mast - or do I have
the wire halyard sawing slowly through the spreaders!
Paul
S/V Selene
takwita
The masthead sheaves will accept line and wire.
The standard halyards use line just a little too thick. I take my mast
down every year. At the time rope to wire was the best solution for
stretch vs. handling.
The easy solution is to "fully load " the winch with halyard before
cleating off.
I can post a masthead pic if you want
bob
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