Halyard Snagging

[alant]

Anyone experienced a headsail halyard wrapping around their steaming light, whilst headsail hoisted? Suspected happened to a mate on a charter boat after hoisting on a downwind leg, but unable to verify.

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[boat_one]

Hello Alant;

I suspect halyards can get wraped around most anything from time to time, usually when you least expect it

<hr width=100% size=1>Regards;
Dave

 

[sailorman]

it is poss. to put a s/s wire/ band strap around the light fitting to stop the halliard fron getting behind the fitting

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[AlunS]

I have had the main halyard wrap around the `blipper' when the main has dropped into the lazyjacks. A short piece of bungy cord, tied to a convenient cleat on the mast below the boom, is passed over the halyard and fixed back to the cleat. When the halyard is tensioned it prevents snagging.

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[extravert]

I had a spinnaker halyard wrap round my ankle during a hoist in the dark once. The gorilla doing the hoisting hoisted sail and me upside down, until my increasingly frantic whimpering made him stop. Fortunately I wasn't lifted completely off the deck, more of a halyard assisted handstand. That's the trouble with gorillas on boats, all beef, no brain (and they eat all the bananas).

<hr width=100% size=1>Summer is what you expect - rain is what you get.

 

[snowleopard]

a loose bit of rope will wrap itself around any object within reach. this is a demonstration of the inherent malignancy of inanimate objects. if the object is beyond your reach the likelihood increases exponentially.

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[Vara]

I have long believed that all syllabi for boating qualifications should include close study of the Laws of Murphy and his cousin Sodde.
You have obviously fallen foul of law 17(a) which states that if a rope can foul it will,there is a converse law that states that all cam cleats fail when you really need them.

<hr width=100% size=1>If it can't be fixed with a lump hammer dont fit it!