| Spinnaker Halyard |
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| After exiting the mast, the spin halyard is led through a cheek block, then one free floating block, then back to another cheek block, then through another free floating block, and is finally dead ended on an eyestrap. (Ignore the little tail of halyard that you see heading downward in the picture.) The two free floating blocks, which are just of the plain loop top type, are connected with a short piece of rope and led forward to the bow via the yellow rope that you see attached to the short piece which has connected the blocks. |
| The yellow rope is then turned at the bow through another loop top block attached to an eyestrap. It then goes aft, through a fairlead attached on the lower portion of the stanchion (you can see it if you look closely at pic 1 above), through the stanchion, and then cleated on the aft section of the CB trunk. |
| The end of the halyard is a T-shaped trapeze handle. The whole arrangement of dividing up the line this way (basically a fancy double reverse purchase) allows the chute to come up incredibly fast, avoids all the pumping and takeup reel mess, and does not get tangled up during takedown. Many thanks to C. Beckwith and "Sassy" for their help. |
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| Pic 1 - view looking aft from bow tank |