[Rhodes22-list] topping lift?

[ROGER PIHLAJA]

Hi All,

Just to further muddy the waters, if you ever want to be able to fly a cruising or triradial spinnaker, you will find you run out of masthead blocks.  I solved this shortage by attaching my topping lift to the aft end of the masthead and running the line down to the boom.  At the aft end of the boom, I mounted a small cam cleat.  This solution has worked well.  I can adjust the topping lift from the aft end of the cockpit and I have enough halyards for my spinnakers.
Roger Pihlaja
S/V Dynamic Equilibrium 
1978. Sanford, MI

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> On May 26, 2024, at 9:05 PM, Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com> wrote:
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> Graham,
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> There are two pulleys to port and two pulleys to starboard at the top of the mast. You would have discovered this pretty quickly once you had the mast down, and this detail doesn't really matter a great deal.  
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> I'm pretty sure that the location of the small block at the edge of the cabin top on my boat dictates that the topping lift line will come down to the deck forward of the spreader.  On other boats apparently that block is further aft, and the line passes aft of the spreader.  You will need to figure out which path is correct for your boat.  It should be easy to reroute the line one way or the other with a boat hook.
> 
> Peter Nyberg
> Coventry, CT
> s/v Silverheels (19888/2016)
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>> On 2024-05-26, at 13:04:47 EDT, Graham Parker wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>> I am not sure if the line that controls the boom height is really called a
>> topping lift? but that is the line I am talking about. It came out of the
>> masthead top pulley during mast raising and now I have to drop the mast and re
>> rig it so I want to make sure I do it correctly. Is there a diagram anywhere in
>> the archives? I think the line goes from the rear top of the boom up into a
>> pulley (one or two pulleys?) on the top of the mast and then down on the aft
>> side of the port spreader and into the cleat on the cabin top?
>> Can anyone clarify before I drop the mast?
>> Cheers
>> Graham Parker
>> sv 00Sailin
>> Lake Champlain
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