Ran a second halyard this year. I was nervous not having a backup. Wondering how others have run their second halyard? Specifically, where do you secure the shackle (I’ve attached mine to the base of the forward most starboard side lifeline stanchion). How have you run the line down the cabin top? And how do you manage the line in the cockpit. Pictures would be great!
Thanks
Chip W
I do exactly that. I shackle it to the lifeline stanchion just tight enough for it to not rattle. Know that if the boom goes to the opposite side on a run, it will get tighter. You don’t want to make it to tight
I have a stack pack that is pretty low slung. So low that it does not allow the front hatch to open more than 5 inches. When anchoring or at a dock and spending the night, I use the second halyard to lift the sail at the point the hatch makes contact. I can open the hatch fully that way.
Once I left it shackled to the ring when I left the boat for a week. I came back to it fastened to a lift line for the stack pack. A boat neighbor fessed up as it was slamming against the mast in the wind. He moved it so they could sleep.
Chuck Garbarino
As You Wish
N30U
Thanks Chuck — and good idea to use it to lift the front of the sail! How do you run the line back to the cockpit?
Thanks again— Chip
My halyards, and all my control lines, are led back to the cockpit.
How did you run it out the base of the mast? Did you already have a second exit point? Thanks.
John - NS22 Tourmaline - Bolles Harbor, MI
I have a second exit point on the mast.
Yes, the second halyard exit was pre-existing.
I have two halyards both run back to the cockpit port side. If I recall, both are internal, but I’ll check next time I’m at the boat! I pin the spare at the bottom of he mast where all the turning blocks are attached to the guard rail there. I also have a cheek block at the top of the mast port side that is currently not in use. Perhaps a PO installed it there to run a small blooper or cruising sail of some sort IDK. The second halyard came in very handy at our first sailpast in this boat as I used it to hoist the string of signal flags up the topping lift wire!
I ran a second halyard in a 5/16 (or 3/8 maybe) AMsteel last year. Definitely came in handle for going up the mast to the join and I replaced by “boom hangers” this year. I ran it off of the blooper sheave, which is at an angle, but better than nothing. In its downtime I run it back to where I used to have the topping lift on the far starboard as I added 4 clutches on that side for the reef-lines/choker/TL. I secure it as a backup topping lift, set more or less to the boom resting on my bimini frame.
We had an incident 7 years ago on a wild lake Erie off Monroe MI (occasionally she thinks she is an ocean in a big east wind) where we lost the choker sheave in 4-6 ft chop , I could barely control the boom and our lightweight aluminum bimini didn’t do much to protect us. We survived and limped back to port and hence the upgrade a few years later to heavy duty stainless and new dodger/bimini from Sportech in St. Catherines.
Jonathan
Jolee, FYC Grosse Ile
Hey Jon, would you be able to post some pictures of your rigging on this? Thanks!
