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Yup - and doing it as a double-purchase halves the load on the crane too 
In Response To: If it is for a spin halyard it should be strong enough to lay the boat over 90 degrees and not break. 
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() but the one thing about Jon's setup I don't get is how the halyard is guided so it doesn't put side loads on the sheaves. Without guidance the halyard will chafe on the sides of the sheave box. (e.g. -- look at the swivel-mounted block just about the genoa's anti-wrap collar in the photo below. It allows the spin halyard to be pulled off to the side without deviating much off center as it exits from the sheave above).
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- So how long is your halyard? How do you use it? How to move "loads" about?
- Hi Gene. We use
- If too short is the only reason, no need to replace
- Now that you asked.
- With my old motor I used my mizzen sheet to lift the motor...
- Interesting, what is that motor?
- Torqeedo 1003S
- I saw that the other day at WM while looking at Dinks and motors... I wondered... do tell more.
- Answers to your questions...
- You no doubt have that magnet thing that keeps your electrons clean, eh? GRIN
- Oh yes and the special filter...
- I like it too -- but leaving it at a dinghy dock would give me pause
- That is why I take mine home
- But what would you do if you go anywhere?
- When we go somewhere we just leave it at the dock
- But what would you do if you go anywhere?
- That is why I take mine home
- You no doubt have that magnet thing that keeps your electrons clean, eh? GRIN
- Answers to your questions...
- I saw that the other day at WM while looking at Dinks and motors... I wondered... do tell more.
- Torqeedo 1003S
- Interesting, what is that motor?
- I really like having a 2:1 spinnaker halyard...
- How do you have that 2:1 spin halyard rigged?
- There's a single block with a becket at the masthead crane...
- Which ultimately begs the question...
- If it is for a spin halyard it should be strong enough to lay the boat over 90 degrees and not break.
- Yup - and doing it as a double-purchase halves the load on the crane too
- Yup - and doing it as a double-purchase halves the load on the crane too
- What are you picking (up)?
- If it is for a spin halyard it should be strong enough to lay the boat over 90 degrees and not break.
- Which ultimately begs the question...
- There's a single block with a becket at the masthead crane...
- How do you have that 2:1 spin halyard rigged?
- Main, spin, and both jib halyards are all long enough to reach the water
- I think different issues, Gene
- Yes indeed, you are on the right track...