[Rhodes22-list] Tangent Topping Lift Question

[Hank]

Mary Lou,

Why the blue tape around the windows?  Are you re-bedding the the windows?

Hank


On 3/7/08, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
>
> 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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