Lido 14, Connecting Halyards and Downhaul

[kbranden]

I just recently purchased a Lido 14 Classic (my first sailboat) and the mast has a cleat on the starboard side and a cam cleat on the port side of it. I know you connect the main Halyard to the starboard cleat, but where would I connect both the Jib Halyard and the downhaul to? I would think you would connect the jib halyard to a a cleat rather than a cam cleat correct? Leaving the downhaul to rope to go into the cam cleat? But that makes me curious to why that is attached on the port side and not aft. And, there isn't another cleat to connect the jib halyard to.

I dunno, this rigging is driving me nuts.

[svHyLyte]

Based on my recollection of our Lido 14 (from the early 60's), if you look at the masthead you should find a small inverted V shaped cleat and the main halyard--wire with a rope tail--should have a swaged in "bead" just forward of the tail. The idea is that you hoist the main, pull the halyard out and down and lock the halyard bead in the inverted V. There should be a small pad-eye on deck or on the aft side of the mast just above deck level to accept a single block with a becket. The down-haul runs from the becket, through a small block on the underside of the boom, back to the becket block and than back up to the cleat on the starboard side of the mast.

The Lido 14 was/is a great boat and we had some of our best sailing times on ours. You'll have a lot of fun with the boat. One of the first things you should do is to take her into shallow water and learn how to right her, discharge water over the stern (by doing a push-up on the transom) and then re-board and bail her (keep a bailer on a lanyard tied to the boat!) and you'll be good to go.

FWIW...

[kbranden]

Hmm. the main Halyard doesn't have a bead, just rope tail. When I get home I can check the mast and see if there is a v shaped cleat on it anywhere. The Lido is hull number #390 so 1959. I'll know on the deck there is round eyeloop built into the deck floor (right beneath the mast). I didn't know if this is where you tied the boom vang or what to be honest.

[svHyLyte]

You may find the following of value: http://www.doublewave.com/lidopedia/...%2014%20v3.pdf

[dhays]

Originally Posted by svHyLyte

Based on my recollection of our Lido 14 (from the early 60's), if you look at the masthead you should find a small inverted V shaped cleat and the main halyard--wire with a rope tail--should have a swaged in "bead" just forward of the tail.

That was my thought as well. I never sailed much on the Lido 14, but it and similar boats the same vintage used that same masthead latch.

Dave