As part of preparing to go sailing in a few weeks, I put up my mast yesterday, and discovered that I was wrong.  My boom topping lift is routed aft of the spreader.

--Peter


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> On 2024-05-26, at 21:04:53 EDT, Peter Nyberg wrote:
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> Graham,
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> There are two pulleys to port and two pulleys to starboard at the top of the 
> mast. You would have discovered this pretty quickly once you had the mast down, 
> and this detail doesn't really matter a great deal. 
> 
> I'm pretty sure that the location of the small block at the edge of the cabin 
> top on my boat dictates that the topping lift line will come down to the deck 
> forward of the spreader.  On other boats apparently that block is further aft, 
> and the line passes aft of the spreader.  You will need to figure out which path 
> is correct for your boat.  It should be easy to reroute the line one way or the 
> other with a boat hook. 
> 
> Peter Nyberg
> Coventry, CT
> s/v Silverheels (19888/2016)
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