Mast Steps and Halyards

[casey1999]

Does anyone have a method to prevent halyards from getting caught in an enclosed fixed mast step? When raising or lowering my main, the main halyard gets caught on one or more steps, then I need to grab the halyard and try to swing it loose.

[Siamese]

When I had steps, I figured out that's what the steps are for!

Sorry...that wasn't helpful.

[mitiempo]

A light line from top to bottom, attached at the outermost part of each step.

[SVPrairieRose]

What Brian said. The PO of my boat did a really poor job of drilling holes on the outermost section of my mast steps. I ran steel wire through there three years ago and now I catch my halyards MOST of the time not ALL the time.

[casey1999]

Originally Posted by mitiempo

A light line from top to bottom, attached at the outermost part of each step.

How would you attach without drilling the step? I was thinking using a heavy wire tie. I think I only need to do the top 1/3 of the steps. The PO used shock cord run from the step to the shroud stay cable and then back to the next step down. I was wondering what else might work.
Thanks

[SVPrairieRose]

Tie on to the top step and hitch to each step below. Tie off to the lowest step.