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internal halyards

2650 Views 14 Replies 12 Participants Last post by  capt jgwinks
Long story short, mast is down, no messenger lines installed, halyards are internal.
Before I go buy a roll of piano wire do you think pushing piano wire down the inside
of a mast is going to work as a messenger? At the mast head there are individual holes that the halyards go through then over the sheaves. I thought of using an electrician fish tape but that radius bend from the sheave to the hole is pretty sharp.
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I like Jeff H solution. Push something up from the base of the mast. Attach a messenger line to the top. When near the sheave opening, fish a hook inside the opening to grab the line.
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