Recent content by Ada Mae

Problem solved After climbing the mast, looking at diagrams and beating my head against the mast I finally found it. No, the beating the head didn’t work. I did run a borescope up thru where the halyard came out on the bottom of the mast. I taped it to a fish tape and found where one of the...

Hi Steve, The boat is in Mexico at the time I noticed the halyard stuck we had a rigger coming to the boat so while he was aloft he checked that everything was free on top but. He could move the halyard but he couldn't pull it up. At the same time I tried moving it from below. After he was down...

Our new to us 1988 E38-200 has the spinnaker halyard fouled inside the mast. It seems totally frozen. Is there anyway to free this without dropping the mast?