halyard

[chouchou]

While sailing last week my main halyard came undone from shackle and slipped down mast. I tried to us the topping lift to feed halyard back but this did not work so now I have no lines to top of mast. I have a fractional rig so I cannot use genoa halyard, any suggestions.
I have priced a cherry picker at 350 euros and have been on look out for trees around lake where I sail. One proposal is to winch somebody up the mast of another boat and then heel our boat to allow a line to be feed from top.

 

[Dyflin]

Get a crane to hoist you up, much cheaper than cherrypicker. It's what they do in the RIYC

 

[William_H]

Assuming you have internal halyards..... Then you will have difficulty threading a mouse through then you need to pull both topping lift and main halyard through. My guess is this could only (most conveniently) be done with the mast down on or near the gorund. So a crane to lower the mast (and hopefully willing to wait to haul it up again).
I doubt the crane operator would allow you to be lifted by the crane.

One trick I have used on my fractional mast is to remove the pulley box at the jib halyard exit and also at the base. You can tape the main halyard or mouse string to the jib halyard and pull it up to get it at least as high as the forestay top. It is not so hard then to feed a mouse wire up the mast to the main halyard pulley.

In any case you have my sympathy good luck....... olewill

 

[matnoo]

Send a small child.

 

[Twister_Ken]

How big a stretch is it from the genny halyard to the top of the mast?

Could someone go up on the genny, and then reach the masthead (with or without some form of 'extending arm' device)?

Another alternative is to get the boat close to a bridge or balcony, and heel the craft so the masthead can be reached.

Or moor alongside a boat with a taller rig, and get someone to swing across to your craft.