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internal halyards

2654 Views 14 Replies 12 Participants Last post by capt jgwinks, Feb 10, 2015

Skipper Jer

Discussion Starter · Feb 8, 2015

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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capt jgwinks

· #15 · Feb 10, 2015

I have used the backstay to fish lines down the mast. Took the turnbuckle off and the barrel just fit through the halyard holes. 1x19 wire rope is stiff enough to push through and not get twisted up with the other halyards and wires, and the backstay is usually longer than the mast.

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