So sez the book sailor.

keep reading them sailing articles ,bob.

SV

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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Well jeez louise Bob..... mine would still be the original halyards this
season if I hadn't gotten these new ones for free. They were spares he had
on his boat for the trip.

Running rigging should be replaced after 8 to 10 years. It's not expensive
and
easy to do. I've replaced all of my running rigging and most of the
standing.
Not a huge expense and less worry. I bet Scotty Potti's standing rigging
is
original as well.

RB

Well, since I was scheduled to splash March 5th, but kept putting it off,
I'm probably not even on the list anymore. And I'm not a brown-noser like
some people.

Scotty

"katysails" wrote in message
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Scott said:
then beg the yard guys to launch me this week.

You have to beg? All we had to do was walk up to the desk and ask
Kathleen
to schedule us in this weel....but then, we pay our bills on
time....Saturday was MYC Work Day...rained in the morning but they were
launching boats off the crane at the rate of 1 every 10 minutes or
so...very
organized...I was assigned to the gardening crew and cut down ornamental
grass and raked out last years crud from under the roses, etc while Mr.
Sail's hung a door on the dumpster site that had been yanked off last
year...and we managed to get a place for the dinghy on the outside dock so
we don't have to launch it from the Butterfly Beach and then have to row
around the whole club to get to the mooring field. And we did the wax
on/wax
off thing and touched up some paint in a few places....
--
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

for a blue water cruiser like bob, it's very critical to keep the rigging up
to snuff.

My halyards are fine, just old. The sheets were oversize and fuzzy, nice on
the hands. The one sheave on the fid block started to crack, so I replaced
all. and I wanted the genny sheets 5' longer.

Scotty


"Capt. Mooron" wrote in message
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"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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| I should probably replace my halyards as well, I think they're the
| originals.
|
|
| You should replace the whole wreck of a boat. Original halyards? What an
unsafe
| idiot.

Well jeez louise Bob..... mine would still be the original halyards this
season if I hadn't gotten these new ones for free. They were spares he had
on his boat for the trip.

I can see replacing running rigging often on a race boat..... but on a
cruiser, I don't see the need to replace stuff that isn't worn to a point
of
possible failure. I'm certain that like me..... Scott inspects his
halyards
and sheets every season and performs the maintenance to keep them in good
operating condition.

BTW.... how many halyards do you have on Alien??

CM

I'm replacing my mainsheet tomorrow with an oversized line to
see how that works. .

Cool! It will match your oversize swim ladder.
S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
"No shirt, no skirt, full service"

And I'm not a brown-noser like
some people.

The jealous loser cries again!

Bwahahahaha!

RB

Since a Nonsuch is often sailed more like a dinghy, and the
amount of line you have to haul in to go from dead downwind to close hauled is
huge (about 70 feet) it was very nice.

Buy a Harken double ended mainsheet fiddle. You could pull in twice as much
line with the same effort.
S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
"No shirt, no skirt, full service"

My halyards are fine, just old. The sheets were oversize and fuzzy, nice on
the hands. The one sheave on the fid block started to crack, so I replaced
all. and I wanted the genny sheets 5' longer.

Holy crap. Unsafe and stupid. Doesn't matter. His boat is on LAND!

RB

why 2 mains?


"Capt. Mooron" wrote
I carry 2 main halyards and 2 jib halyards.... one of which doubles as a
spinnaker halyard.

why 2 mains?


Holy dragon crap!


RB

my RF has it's own halyard, so-to-speak. Wire goes up from the head around
a sheave on the top fitting and back down to a cleat on the RF drum. So
now I have a spare jib halyard.

SV


"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
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Roller furling still has a halyard - how else would it get up there? I
have
main, jib and spinnaker, plus a spare messenger on a sheave, plus a flag
halyard. In a pinch, the topping lift could be used as a halyard.




"Capt. Mooron" wrote in message
news

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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| BTW.... how many halyards do you have on Alien??
|
| 5. Can you name them?

WOW... you have 5 sheaves on your masthead?? I only have 4
halyards.....
but I can rig and run 6 on my mast...all internal. Hey... maybe I'll use
my
old main and jib halyard to run all 6 this year. Then again all my jibs
are
hank ons so the feasibility of running two jibs on one forestay exist.

I carry 2 main halyards and 2 jib halyards.... one of which doubles as a
spinnaker halyard.

I thought you had roller furling? If so.... I'd be hard pressed to
figure
why you have 5 halyards... unless 3 of them are never used. I've never
seen
a photo of Alien with a chute.... or a storm trysail rigged.

CM