[C320-list] SPIN HALYARD

[Denny Browne]

That's a good point about the existing spin halyard exits. I have two jib
halyards and two spin halyards on my boat using the standard masthead. One
jib halyard is for the furling jib and the other is for a non-furling jib
(just in case I ever get a non-furling sail, as I planned before this little
problem with the economy). 

The spin halyard exits work fine, as long as we douse the spinnaker sailing
deep off the wind. It's best to drop the sail on the same side of the boat
as the halyard so the halyard doesn't chafe on the masthead or headstay.
Using the crane dramatically reduces that chafe and actually enables you to
drop the sail into the companionway. Ideally, you still drop the sail on the
same side of the boat as the halyard.

Denny Browne
A Cappella #935
Redondo Beach
denny at dennybrowne.com

-----Original Message-----
From: c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com
[mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Robert E.
Sloat
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 7:41 AM
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] SPIN HALYARD

Pete-Check the 320 site for crane installation pictures.  Go to Gallery and 
drill down to Technical Photos and then search using crane.  From a quick 
search of old 320 emails and the pictures, it looks like you also have to 
change the exit location of the spinnaker halyard to some where 6-8 feet own

from the top of the mast so the halyard exists the mast below and then goes 
to the block attached to the crane.  For the mast in the pictures the crane 
slopes downward and forward and looks like it would interfere with the 
halyard exiting the mast at the top.  I assume this is the reason folks have

the halyard exit the mast below.  If the crane exited horizontally from the 
top of the mast maybe there would be enough room for the halyard to exit the

top of the mast and cleanly go to a block attached to the crane.  I have 
hull 894 and the mast top is identical to these pictures.

FYI I have been sailing my 320 with an asymmetric spinnaker and sock for 
over 6 years without a crane and have had no problems using the stock 
halyard exit at the top of the mast.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "grossnickle pete" <grossnicklep at yahoo.com>
To: <C320-list at catalina320.com>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 12:17 PM
Subject: [C320-list] SPIN HALYARD


We need to add a spin halyard to EL GATO.

Does anyone know how to mount a spin halyard crane to masthead?

Many Thanks

Pete (n Jan) Grossnickle
EL GATO
# 715
San Diego (SWYC slip A-80)