by RobH912 » Mon Jun 24, 2019 12:16 pm
GreenLake - thanks for your thoughts and links to some different hardware. I do understand the "What you want is for the halyard to exit in line." comment.
I believe that all these issues / holes are all a result from the conversion to the tabernacle mast set up and U too have been a little worried about more / larger holes in the mast.
First I had thought about and looked at some sheave type blocks but they required me to further cut out the existing holes in the mast, almost 2x size that they are now, so I started to look at something that might prevent the halyard from chaffing against the metal knowing that I was not gaining any mechanical advantage.
I'll remeasure the holes compared to the APS link specs, but the web site does say that it will be 2 -3 weeks before shipping.
Need to get the boat in the water, and start sailing this week. Missed first club race yesterday.
My most immediate need is to figure out a solution for the Main Halyard. Some pictures below of current set up, main halyard is RED.
The Main Halyard comes out of an existing slot in the mast, looks like a mast slot to feed the main sail, there is a small block that doesn't really do anything, halyard leads down to a block on the deck, redirects halyard to a cam cleat. Previous owner said that cam cleat "did not hold the main halyard tight" and thought a regular cleat would be better... thinking that halyard is not all in line and pulling itself out of the cam cleat.
Think I will first remove the cam cleat, install a regular cleat, get sailing, while ordering/waiting for the second block you referenced to arrive for the main halyard... do that later this summer.
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Rob
DS1 #2444
Cape Cod
Eastham, MA