Handy Tip

[johnalison]

If you are changing your topping lift for a smaller, streamlined but shiny and new version, make sure that it can't get stuck in the leech-line jammmers and that you have established this before you try to drop the main just outside a harbour like Ijmuiden where you were hoping to make an elegant entrance. It may help to keep a good long boat-hook on board.

 

[BruceDanforth]

That seems like quite an original cockup.

 

[nathanlee]

Once had the main halyard block at the top of the mast collapse on me. The pulley wheel just imploded due to UV corrosion and I couldn't get the bloody main down just as I was approaching the moorings at felixstow ferry. The nearby air took on a blueish hue.

 

[sailorman]

If you are changing your topping lift for a smaller, streamlined but shiny and new version, make sure that it can't get stuck in the leech-line jammmers and that you have established this before you try to drop the main just outside a harbour like Ijmuiden where you were hoping to make an elegant entrance. It may help to keep a good long boat-hook on board.

we have a solid kicker & use the main halliard as a topping lift to park the boom & stop the halliard frapping

 

[michael_w]

Problem with a solid kicker is you can't drop the boom on the deck when you've got the trysail up.

 

[prv]

Problem with a solid kicker is you can't drop the boom on the deck when you've got the trysail up.

Don't have a trysail, so that doesn't bother me

Pete

 

[johnalison]

I have a topping lift because I am too mean to have my strut converted to gas and because I like a spare line to the masthead for when I go up there.