Someone once advised me never to rely on the loops in the signal flags to recover the halyard. I always use a messenger line attached directly to the shackle "just in case".
For years I used two halyards - one for bow and one for stern - then saw some folks at Stamford YC use a single halyard - boy it's so much easier -- Jonathan Indigo C&C 35III SOUTHPORT CT > On Sep 18, 2015, at 12:15, Edd Schillay via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > Stu, > > No pictures, sorry. One of the loops on a signal flag came apart in the > overnight blow, dropping a few to the deck and the others streaming off the > halyard. We loosened the halyard completely in hopes that the breeze and > movement would work the flags some of the way down, inch by inch. Which it > did — a little. > > The next day, between Clinton and Black Rock, we had a lull in the breeze and > took the opportunity to do some turns to tangle some of the flags in the rig. > The lowest flag was now wrapped in the shroud under the lowest spreader. > > Once at dock in Black Rock, we used the extending boat hook to twist around > and grab the lowest flag, using the shroud to keep pressure on it — then > slowly pulled downwards. We finally got our hands on it and pulled the rest > down, got to the halyard shackle and then untangled the halyard. > > All back to normal now. > > > All the best, > > Edd > > > Edd M. Schillay > Starship Enterprise > C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B > City Island, NY > Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log > > > > > > > > > > > > >> On Sep 18, 2015, at 11:54 AM, Stu via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: >> >> Edd >> >> Did you get your signal flags down after the blow? Any pictures? Tell the >> world what happened. >> >> Stu >> _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom > of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com >
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