Oops.  Stbd halyard that snapped

From: Hoyt, Mike via CnC-List <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2025 4:24 PM
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Cc: Hoyt, Mike <[email protected]>
Subject: Stus-List Re: Halyard stuck in mast advice

Just ordered a Borescope from amazon. $50 for 32 ft Checked on mast today. Yes 
the cap is welded in place. Access points are halyard exists, steaming light, 
vhf wire exit and of course mast base Is arriving Saturday. May be interesting 
The sad

Just ordered a Borescope from amazon. $50 for 32 ft

Checked on mast today.  Yes the cap is welded in place.  Access points are 
halyard exists, steaming light, vhf wire exit and of course mast base

Is arriving Saturday.  May be interesting

The sad part is that this was our seldom used port side spin halyard.  If it 
parted then our oft used port halyard will also need replacing.  Last time I 
replaced a spin sheet it was $300 just for the line and the splice.  Halyard is 
longer and prices have gone up.  $$$

Gotta love boats!

Mike Hoyt
Persistence
Halifax, NS


From: Bill Coleman via CnC-List <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2025 5:20 PM
To: Stus-List <[email protected]>
Cc: Bill Coleman <[email protected]>
Subject: Stus-List Re: Halyard stuck in mast advice

I wonder if the halyard is still a little pregnant there from the splice - 
maybe caused the jam. They make borescopes pretty affordable now, only a half 
inch diameter, and pretty long and they plug right into your phone-=we used one 
to look

I wonder if the halyard is still a little pregnant there from the splice - 
maybe caused the jam.
They make borescopes pretty affordable now, only a half inch diameter, and 
pretty long and they plug right into your phone-=we used one to look for my 
sunglasses at the bottom of the slip, I was pretty impressed at how far they 
have come for the money.

Bill Coleman
Erie

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM John Read via CnC-List 
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Mike

Is the halyard jammed by the sheave?  Would removing the sheave free things up??

John Read
Legacy III
1982 C&C 34
Noank, CT

From: Richard Bush via CnC-List
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2025 10:35 AM
To: Stus-List <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: Richard Bush <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Stus-List Re: Halyard stuck in mast advice

Mike, can you tell where inside the mast the jam is located? On my mast, (1985 
vintage) the top plate is bolted on and can be removed; if it s way down inside 
the mast, then possibly remove the steaming light and see if you can access it 
from there? Good luck!

Richard
1985 C
&C 37 CB: Ohio River, Mile 596;

Richard N. Bush Law Offices
2950 Breckenridge Lane, Suite Nine
Louisville, Kentucky 40220
(502) 584-7255


On Monday, November 10, 2025 at 09:44:56 AM EST, Hoyt, Mike via CnC-List 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:



At the end of the season our starboard spinnaker halyard parted 15 inches from 
the snap shackle.  At the time the halyard would not pull down through the mast.



After unstepping the mast for the season I tried playing with the other spin 
and jib halyards to see if this could nudge it loose.  It did not.



The halyard is still just shy of full hoist and jammed inside the mast.  The 
other spin halyard and the jib and main halyards seem to be running freely



Any thoughts on how I can retrieve this halyard from the mast?



This is a standard white painted aluminum mast from the mid eighties.  Think 
C&C 33-2 mast



Thanks in advance



Mike Hoyt

Persistence

Halifax, NS

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