[Rhodes22-list] Tangent Topping Lift Question

[Mary Lou Troy]

Just got to the boat and back before the rain.

Here is the portside turning block. Topping lift comes from the 
masthead and through this block to the cam cleat on the cabin top. 
One screw on the padeye also holds the plate for the tang for the aft 
lower. The other is just into the fiberglass.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD




At 12:22 PM 3/7/2008, you wrote:
>Hank (and John),
>Our masthead has double sheaves on the front of the mast and double
>sheaves aft. Our topping lift runs from the boom end to the aft
>masthead sheave, over the front sheave and down to a block on the
>port side near the base of the aft lower stay (I'm going to have to
>go look at the boat to see exactly where this is) and from that block
>to a cam cleat on the port side cabin top. It works well. You can see
>the cam cleat on the cabin top in the attached pic.
>
>Mary Lou
>1991 R22  Fretless
>Rock Hall, MD
>
>
>At 11:42 AM 3/7/2008, you wrote:
> >While we are on the topic of topping lifts, how do most of your run the free
> >end of the topping lift?  With the way the sheave is situated, it comes out
> >inside the mast and I am afraid of it getting wraped up in the main.
> >
> >Actually this happened once and we had to drop the mast to fix it.  Since
> >then, I have run some rigging tape around the mast below the sheave and the
> >topping lift now goes outside of that so that it stays away from the
> >furler.
> >
> >Hank
> >
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