How to Retrieve Lost Main Halyard

[Giulietta]

Mystic...I'm with you, man....solidariety.....

[sailingdog]

Considering the solar thread and the fight club threads... it is a safe bet that very few threads are ever locked.

[bilgardner]

rockfish, any chance you can raft up beside a taller masted boat and impose on his taller rigging to snag your halyard..probably safer climbing his rig?

[CapnHand]

Originally Posted by Giulietta

... just for the record...I don't talk out of my computer **** I dig out in books internet or bars..... I talk about **** I know, **** I did, or saw being done...

That's something that I respect. The information here would be better if everyone followed these guidelines.

[CLucas]

Originally Posted by Giulietta

... Tree climbers and electrical post work men in europe use a lether belt, that stops the fall by squeezing you against the mast.

Okay, funny visual here -- falling while squeezed against the mast by a leather belt and ultimately being saved from crashing onto the deck by the boom hitting you in the crotch and sending your testicals over the bow when you cough them up.

I have a very lightweight fibreglass telescoping tree pruner -- cover up the blade and you have a neat means of grabbing the shackle. If it's all the way up, your options just reduced in number and somebody's going to have to go up. You could also find a marina with a crane that's willing to hoist a person (sounds like an insurance claim in the making...) to the top of your mast.

[SEMIJim]

Originally Posted by CLucas

Okay, funny visual here -- falling while squeezed against the mast by a leather belt and ultimately being saved from crashing onto the deck by the boom hitting you in the crotch and sending your testicals over the bow when you cough them up.

Nah. You'd get stopped by the spreaders. If those failed, then the lower shrouds.

Sorry

Jim

[sailingdog]

Rick-

I don't think any has a cannon on deck that is large enough to fire a person out of.

[travler37]

Originally Posted by sailingdog

Rick-

I don't think any has a cannon on deck that is large enough to fire a person out of.

It's not on deck.[yet]
But this is a twofold idea.Walks to back 40 and measures bore.Drinks another on his way back.

Measures middle daughters worthless boyfriends shoulders....yea...this will work.

Mark

[sailingdog]

Spoken like a truly overprotective father.

Originally Posted by travler37

It's not on deck.[yet]
But this is a twofold idea.Walks to back 40 and measures bore.Drinks another on his way back.

Measures middle daughters worthless boyfriends shoulders....yea...this will work.

Mark

[timangiel]

Did I log onto sailing anarchy??