Hum,
I have a piece of sailcloth covering the halyard exit. Likely been there
years, in the PNW rain.
You could pick up a scrap from your local sailmaker, probably free from the
scraps box, with adhesive back and stick it on.
Or you could get an engineer to over-think it. . .
2 cents, Lee
Not to hijack your thread, (or maybe yes!)
But this makes me think of an item I have been lusting for, for some time – a
drip edge for mast halyards . Kind of like the first Schaefer Link, but like a
long nose, glued just above a sheave to keep the rain from leaching down the
inside of the