Halyard threading harder than Tetris?
Hello all, unfortunately my Halyard blew through on my last sailing outing. I have been trying to re-thread a guide line through the mast to draw the main halyard through after. I can get the guide line down as far as the goose neck (I can hear the piece of metal attached to the line clanging around in the mast), but I just cant get it back past here despite using gravity, shaking extensively, magnets and as many expletives as I know.
So I was wondering if anyone knows what is going on in there? Its a Selden Mast and I don't want to take the foot off the mast to look as the bolts are fairly threaded - so that will be another thing to do before sailing.
Anyone have any ideas? Tricks? Methods? Magic?
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taking the heel plug off does help.
turn the mast on its head and feed in from the foot?
have you got a used wire haliard or old haliard in the " old bits" box that we all have- feeds on pressure rather than gravity