T&T: Love the sound of halyards

[Vance Nelson]

One solution I used years ago on my sailboat was to pull back either an
electrical wire or the antenna cable from the top of the mast with a heavy
string attached. Then tie foam "butterflies" on the string and pull the
cable and the string with the foam attached back up the mast.  Put foam
every 3-4 feet and it will eliminate most if not all the internal slapping.

Vance B. Nelson
Superior Dreams 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: trawlers-and-trawlering-bounces at lists.samurai.com
[mailto:trawlers-and-trawlering-bounces at lists.samurai.com] On Behalf Of
Faure, Marin
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:48 PM
To: trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com
Subject: Re: T&T: Love the sound of halyards

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
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