what is this hole/ slot for in mast

[paul-essex]

5 foot from the top of my mast on a Westerly Konsort is a vertical slot with a insert riveted in witch has a loading point inside to the bottom of it and on the outside to the top of it
where a T fitting has riveted insert with load points left and right to the inside
the one idea I had was a clip in a work platform as it is just the right height to work on mast head

 

[Lakesailor]

About where that radar reflector is?

 

[TimBennet]

Is it not where the spinnaker halyard went back in the mast on the fall side of the block?

 

[prv]

Is it not where the spinnaker halyard went back in the mast on the fall side of the block?

+1 sounds like a mast slot liner for passing a halyard through.

Pete

 

[paul-essex]

+1 sounds like a mast slot liner for passing a halyard through.

Pete

it would be right for a halyard going through it from bottom inside to outside up but I have loads of wheels (4) at the top so why would you want a rope to come out 5 foot lower and go upwards ? forgive my tec talk
one rope up inside over top wheel to lift Main rear sail ( top wheel one used )
one rope up inside over top wheel to lift front sail ( top wheel two used )
one rope up inside over top wheel to lift boom ( top wheel three used)
one rope up inside over top wheel to lift spinnaker if I had one all wheels used how near am I ps I got it all in bits and it a little different to my W 25

 

[paul-essex]

About where that radar reflector is?

a bit higher than that half way between that and the top

 

[rhumlady]

The spi halyard on the original Konsort Proctor mast went around a loose block on the outside of the mast so it would be forward of the forestay. The halyard then went down through this slot and out at the lower end of the mastas he been said above.

 

[paul-essex]

cheers sound like it fits the bill so did that block fit to the upside down "U" bolt at the very top front ?

 

[merlin3688]

Yes the rope would go round a block hanging down from a U bolt and then down through the slot on the mast, Sailspar used to run the Spinnaker halyard this way many years ago on all their masts.

 

[bert49uk]

Nice picture of Ilfracombe

 

[prv]

it would be right for a halyard going through it from bottom inside to outside up

That's right.

but I have loads of wheels (4) at the top so why would you want a rope to come out 5 foot lower and go upwards ?

Because whereas most halyards run in a pretty constant direction (straight down for the main, down and a little bit forward for the jib), a spinnaker halyard moves all over the place as the kite does its thing. Downwards, horizontally forwards, right out to both sides, etc. If you had the halyard just coming out of a normal sheave (your "wheels") at the masthead, a lot of this movement would have the halyard chaffing against things. Instead you run it through a block which is hanging from the masthead and free to move in any direction.

Pete

 

[viago]

Nice picture of Ilfracombe

i've been racking my brains trying to remember that harbour. only been there once, on a stag night. walked around there in the morning after a full english and feeling rather poorly. those were the days.
problem solved, thanks.

 

[[70521]]

Nice picture of Ilfracombe

I thought so too. At least that awful statue is not in shot.