T&T: Love the sound of halyards

[Faure, Marin]

Sometimes the noise is from external halyards that have not be bungeed
or otherwise secured away from the mast. That's an owner-induced fault.
But sometimes the problem is an internal halyard and I don't see that
there's anything the owner can do about this other than do as a previous
poster said and somehow sleeve the internal halyard(s).  I don't know if
this is a common factory practice, something that's only usually found
on the more upscale sailboats, or something an owner has to have done by
him/herself or a yard.  But if a sailboater has a slapping internal
halyard I can't really fault them for this as there doesn't appear to be
anything they can do about it as far as securing the halyard is
concerned.

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C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington