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Default replace mainsail halyard

Listen to Jeff, not the moronic Charlie.


"Charlie Morgan" wrote in

Two methods:

1) Have someone else climb the mast



Dumb!



2) Attach a small diameter "messenger" line to the bitter

end and pull
that through. Then detach the old halyard. At the point

where the old
halyard was attached, you now attach the bitter end of the

new halyard
and use the messenger line to pull it through.


Dumber!



2a) If the old halyard is really of no potential for

reuse, then you
can just cut off the headboard shackle, attach the bitter

end of the
new halyard to that end, and pull it through.



Really stupid!