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internal halyards

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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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Jeff_H

· #2 · Feb 8, 2015 (Edited)

The only time that I fished internal halyards with the mast down we removed the sheeves. We made up a pusher out of small diameter PVC tubing and worked from the bottom of the mast which was completely open. You may need to remove the mast step. We bought a small spool of light dacron or nylon that we bought for messengers. We cut up a bunch of hangers and made hooks of various shapes and lengths

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