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Originally Posted by mitiempo View Post
You really can't use the existing winch for a rope halyard as it is a winch that holds all the fall. There is room for wire on the winch but not rope.
My original thought was to use the wire halyard winch as a conventional winch and cleat off the rope halyard. Is there any reason I could modify the winch to work this way?
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