Lots of ways to swap the halyards. Use a variation on this. Tie a messenger line securely to each halyard. Pull the halyards so the messenger line is in the mast. This will clear the exit plates, sheaves, etc. for access. Using "special tool H" (wire coat hanger bent with a shallow hook) reach through the HIGHEST exit and grab the messenger for the halyard that exits lower. Pull it through.
Now, tie a weight on the other messenger string and drop it down the mast through its exit. Reach across from the low exit and grab it. Pull the messengers and the halyards should be swapped. They should run free. Reconfiguring running rigging isn't as difficult as deciding where you want everything. If you race, then you definitely want the spinnaker halyards to exit on the opposite side. That way your crew hoisting the chute will always be on the high side. Ideally, you'd want the jib halyards, if you boat is so equipped, to be swapped also. However, that's not as important because a) you may be approaching the downwind mark on the opposite gybe from the set and the boat may be standing up more than when the chute was set. In my experience, it's not often that you approach a downwind mark with a tremendous amount of heel. Also, it's not difficult to install additional exits in a mast. Just cut the hole, make sure there are no sharp edges and slap on an exit plate. Probably more difficult is installing the hardware to turn the halyard at the mast base and run it aft. Touche's two spin halyards are external. As such, they are difficult to swap. The choices would be to swap them on the forward side of the mast. That would be a poor choice. The second way would be to install entry plates near the masthead and exit plates at the deck,run them internally and swap them inside the mast. Lots of work. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_sb5TfIENvsS0laTFU3VUlDTXM/view?usp=sharing Also, while we're on the subject of chute hoists, I installed a spinnaker halyard parking cleat. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l4zjGelVZFb6ovcoiTm1w8widYvuqKYz/view?usp=sharing These are slick. Your mast person hoists the chute and the halyard cleats itself as it is hoisted. Then your pit person, after all the activity at the rounding, can simply pull the halyard and it will uncleat, ready to drop. This assumes your spin halyard is run aft to a rope clutch. I don't know where to get one. I got that one from Annapolis Performance Sailing before it went bust. -- Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 9:43 PM cenelson via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Hey Dennis, > > I always thought that it would be faster/easier to hoist the kite for port > rounding from the starboard/high side. > > I couldn’t wrap my head around how to do it on my boat. > > You suggest to just ‘swap’ the halyards inside the mast and have the port > kite halyard exit the starboard side and the stud halyard exit the port > side. Is this correct? > > Are there precautions to take regarding the halyards crossing inside the > mast besides making sure they run free? > > My mast has the kite halyards port and starboard at the top of the mast > and the jib halyard centered and lower—it is on a furler. > > Thanks > > Charlie Nelson > Water Phantom > 1995 36 XL/kcb > > > Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS > <https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aol-news-email-weather-video/id646100661> > > >
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