[Rhodes22-list] Halyards

[Mary Lou Troy]

What kind of headsail furler do you have? The old GBI style furler 
had no halyard. The sail was screwed to the aluminum tube. I think 
Stan usually uses a CDI furler these days. These have some sort of 
internal halyard arrangement and you need to use a messenger line to 
lower the sail. That may be the line Elton showed you. Manuals and 
other info are available on the CDI website. 
(http://www.sailcdi.com/ffmain.htm). We have a Schaefer SnapFurl 
which uses a regular halyard. Because we already had a halyard for 
our UPS (light air sail) we had to move the topping lift to a block 
which we attached to the masthead.

We have a flag halyard (really a piece of string) that goes to a 
block clamped to the starboard spreader. It used to get cleated to a 
spare cleat on the mast but as we needed a cleat for the new jib 
halyard we added one of those clamp-on cleats to one of the lower 
stays. We have a pole for the US flag that clamps to the stern rail.

As far as storm prep, we went through a drill last year when a storm 
threatened more for practice than anything else. At the time I posted 
some pictures to the list. The message (with the links to the pics) 
is in the archives at:
http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/2008-September/054961.html

There's a complete description of what we did at:
http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/2008-September/053767.html
There's an entire thread of discussion about storm preps there.

I wouldn't rely on wraps of the sheet to secure your headsail. 
Usually when a wrapped headsail starts to unfurl it is high up when 
the wind gets under a bit of the sail. Gusts like you would get in a 
thunderstorm are not so much of a problem as sustained winds like you 
would get in a tropical storm or hurricane. Our theory is that if 
truly threaten by a hurricane we will pull the boat as we are not 
confident of our ability to tie her off in the slip in such a way 
that she would be safe. When we were threatened by Isabel we had the 
yard pull the boat and put her on the trailer. We then took the mast down.

On a related note, we do routinely tie off the headsail with a line 
through the clew eyelet tied around the sail. This allows us to 
slacken the sheets so the swallows don't perch on them and crap all 
over the foredeck.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD



At 12:25 PM 6/3/2009, you wrote:

>R22 2009 with furling head sail and IMF.  Silly Question:  Does the main sail
>and or head sail have a halyard?  I keep my boat in the water at a slip and
>never really took a good look at the mast head rigging prior to raising my
>mast. I can see a hollow groove inside the mast that houses the furling
>mechanism but don't see a main halyard.  I suppose that the mast needs to
>come down in order to remove the main sail.  How about the head sail?  I see
>a grooved sleav that the head sail appears to slide into and assume the
>sleave is only removed if the mast is down?  I assume the head sail can be
>slid down and out of the track but I don' see a halyard?  Elton showed me a
>red halyard that is stowed inside the boat and noted I should use this if I
>remove the head sail.  Not sure exactly how the red line gets used?  I don't
>need to take the sails down but am curious how it is done.  I am also
>thinking ahead to storm season and want to be prepared in case I decide to
>remove the head sail if high winds are predicted.  Is the small amount of
>main sail exposed during a windy storm of concern?  I suppose the head sail
>sheets could be wraped around the furled head sail to better protect the
>sail from flapping, should anything be done to the small amount of main sail
>exposed.  I am also thinking it would be nice to have an extra halyard to
>fly a flag and suppose most are attached to the spreaders.  I also purchased
>a 2.5 gallon solar shower and am wondering what to raise this with, penant
>halyard or rig something on the topping lift?
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