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Originally Posted by bubb2
go to you local home improvement store and get yourself a 100 ft stool of 3/32sd line to use a messenger. slip 8 to 10, 1/4 x 20 onto the end of the line and tie a knot so they stay on. The nuts give the messenger weight so, you feed the line (knot end first) down the mast from the top, with a coat hanger fish out the line where it exits at the bottom of the mast. Then tie and tape the halyard to the end of the messenger over lapping by 6 inches and pull it on through.
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That's excellent. Thanks Bubb!
There is very little extra space around the mast-exit hole. The halyard barely fits through. I lost the halyard because I used tape-only to hold the messenger line on. In the spring I may splice the messenger to the very end of the halyard using many "layers" of thread.
Regards,
Brad