[C320-list] Raising the Bosun's chair

[MICHAEL COLE]

Koen--at the risk of being repetitive the bow roller works perfectly well. We turn the main halyard block at the foot of the mast and run the halyard on the underside of the bow roller and back to the windlass .  The rest of the procedure is as you advocate as there is always two of us involved.
 Whether we would bother with a safety line in future I'm not sure as I've just replaced my main halyard here in Sydney with an 8mm super braid with anSK75 Dyneema core  the rope having a 6083lb breaking strain. I realise this is a gross overkill but it has virtually no stretch and the boat does spend most of it's life club racing
    Mike Cole   #421 Mio Dio