Removing Furling gear with mast up

[oakleyb]

Need to replace the return halyard

Is this possible ?

My Plan :1, Remove Norse fitting at the drum base
2, Allow extrusion to slide down the forestay
3, Replace return halyard
4, Slide extrusion over forestay
5, Replace Norse fitting at drum base

Easy, or am i missing something

Thanks

 

[sailorman]

much safer to drop the whole forestay if your afloat & sort it on a pontoon or better still ashore

Need to replace the return halyard

Is this possible ?

My Plan :1, Remove Norse fitting at the drum base
2, Allow extrusion to slide down the forestay
3, Replace return halyard
4, Slide extrusion over forestay
5, Replace Norse fitting at drum base

Easy, or am i missing something

Thanks

 

[Billjratt]

What's a return hallyard? Can't it be done from a bosun's chair?
Slipping a foil off a forestay wire onto a mouse sounds as though it will get bent.
You need the mouse line on the bottom of the stay or you won't get the foil back up again.
Sounds a bit fraught to me.

 

[oakleyb]

I'm unable to get up the mast unfortuately

 

[sailorman]

what boat what foil

 

[NormanS]

The other day, I took the foil and forestay down. But I have mast steps.

 

[30boat]

Somehow I can see a lot of difficulties in the whole process.Can you take the foil apart or is it a single piece?If you can break it into small lengths then it may be possible to slide it over and up the wire but be aware that as it builds up in length it'll be very hard to hold in place.You'll need a way of gripping the wire as you push the foil sections up and then a way of holding them up while you insert the next one.On top of that the little screws that hold the foil sections tend to weld themselves to the aluminium.The wire will be deformed at the point where it enters the Norseman terminal and will have to be cut flush or it won't fit through the bearings in the foil.It should be done on the hard, ideally.

 

[Roy M]

I agree with the comment about lowering the whole system, its safer and you can inspect end to end much easier. I did this on my Jeanneau Symphony. The boat was afloat in a boat yard and I used a "cherry picker" for detaching the top end and lowering to the jetty. The alloy extrusion was in 3 parts and I wanted to replace all the rivets holding it together as well as all the collets surounding the bow wire. To be on the safe side I left a line inplace of the wire, masthead to bow. It is a two man job and the Spanish yard loaned me a non English speaking rigger who was excellent. We started the job at 0930 and I was back at sea by 1300.Roy M