[Rhodes22-list] relocating the topping lift - any experience out there?

[Rob Lowe]

Mary Lou,
I dug through some old emails as I recall we did discuss this at one time.
Do you have a masthead bail?  I think it was Mike that listed this site:
http://www.lefiell.com/masthead_assemb.html
We actually use one of the sheaves for the topping lift and have a block
hanging from a forward facing bail that we use for the jib halyard.  Would
an aft facing bail with block suffice for the topping lift?
Alternately, they sell a four sheave masthead, anyone replace the two sheave
masthead with a four sheave masthead?

Rob Lowe
1976 Rhodes
S/V Getaway

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Lou Troy" <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 11:28 AM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] relocating the topping lift - any experience out
there?


> We are going to be relocating our topping lift. Is there anyone who
> has done this and has an attachment system they are particularly pleased
with?
>
> Background: We have two sheaves at the masthead. One will be
> spinnaker (Doyle UPS) halyard. The other will be the jib/genoa
> halyard to go with the new Schaefer Snap-Furl furling unit. This
> means an alternate arrangement will have to be found for the topping
> lift. We adjust the topping lift a lot - at anchor to raise the boom,
> when furling the main, when lowering the mast etc. so we want to
> retain the ease of adjustment we now have.
>
> We have thought about putting a block on the side of the mast but
> real estate up there looks a little tight. We have thought about
> dead-ending the topping lift at the masthead and running it through a
> block at the boom end but this seems like it might not adjust as well.
>
> Does anyone have experience with either of these approaches? Has
> anyone come up with another solution? Are there fittings you would
> suggest? Do you have pictures? I am looking for some experience
> rather than conjecture unless the conjecture includes part numbers or
> a different approach entirely.
>
> Note to Ed: I did search the archives. This was discussed on the list
> in 2003 with Roger Pihlaja writing about dead-ending the topping lift
> but the discussion quickly moved to a discussion of mounting for a
> whisker pole and there was not any further discussion of how the
> topping lift was attached or how well it worked. I think Mark Kaynor
> also did this but Mark and Julie are off cruising (last heard from in
> the Bahamas).
>
> To everyone else: Thanks in advance.
>
> Mary Lou
> 1991 R22 Fretless
> Rock Hall, MD
>
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