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Initially Posted - 05/06/2007 : 09:35:46

It seems the guys who were working on our mast lights broke the black plastic pad eye on our mast. The pad eye has two screw holes and we need to replace it to attach a now homeless halyard. It seems like plastic is a rather lame material to use for a pad eye, so if there is alternative that would be great. Any ideas?

1983 C-25, Standard rig, swing keel

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Response Posted - 05/06/2007 : 09:38:45

A pad-eye for the halyard? Where? Why?

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Response Posted - 05/06/2007 : 09:44:38

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Dave Bristle
 A pad-eye for the halyard? Where? Why?
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Actually it is unclear to me why we have this halyard. It has a plastic clip on the end and runs on the front of the mast. New looking line. We have used it to secure our hatch umbrella. PO isn't around to ask.

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Response Posted - 05/06/2007 : 10:02:25

Maybe it's for securing a hatch umbrella.

I still don't know why you'd put it through and eye.

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Response Posted - 05/06/2007 : 11:11:05

Is it mounted on a track or just screwed to the mast?

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Response Posted - 05/06/2007 : 15:20:36

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ClamBeach
 Is it mounted on a track or just screwed to the mast?
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Screwed to the front of the mast. 2 screws.

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Response Posted - 05/06/2007 : 15:22:11

I still don't know why you'd put it through and eye.
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The line runs up the mast and hooks on to the pad eye when not in use. Now we have nothing to hook this line onto.

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Response Posted - 05/06/2007 : 16:13:46

I've seen pad-eyes made essentially of heavy stainless steel wire. Do you have a mast base plate (for blocks leading lines back to the cockpit)? Or how about a "leash" made of very light rope tied to the mast cleat? .......

Edited by - Dave Bristle on 05/06/2007 16:14:55

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Response Posted - 05/07/2007 : 12:49:09

A WISKER POLE BASE???FRONT OF THE MAST ABOUT 36"OFF THE DECK?

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Response Posted - 05/07/2007 : 14:09:08

Given the info above, my guess would be about the same as Val's. The black plastic 'padeye' loop might have been for attaching the inboard end of a pole. The mystery halyard might be for a 2nd headsail (if it's truly a 5/16" or larger masthead halyard), or a pole topping lift (if it's 1/4" or so, and hangs from about 1/2 way up the mast).

One way to store halyards is to flip them around the spreader tips and attach them to themselves at about chest to eye height. The details vary somewhat from boat to boat. (And some purists will disapprove.)

If you'd like a more substantial loop where the previous one was, there are lots of stainless steel pole mounts available. Mine is on a few feet of T-track up the front of the mast for leveling a spinnaker pole.

-- Leon S.

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Response Posted - 05/07/2007 : 16:32:17

I have the same thing on my '82 SR. It is a plastic eye about 36" off the deck. I also have an additional sheave and line on the front of the mast head. I use the extra line to hoist an asymetrical spinaker (genaker, blooper, whatever you want to call it). I use the plastic pad eye to hook a whisker pole to to hold the above sail out during a wing-on-wing.

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Response Posted - 05/08/2007 : 23:42:48

The pad eye has to be for the whisker pole but not a large pole. Brother-in-law was forward deck crew and when the eye broke the pole tried to beat him severely. Once when cruising was informed that if a was tied close to the mast and made a noise it would be found coiled in the cockpit in the morning so the pad eye could be anoying if used as a base for halyard.

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