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OJ
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Initially Posted - 11/20/2011 :  15:11:59  Show Profile
Installed a halyard restrainer (with the stick up) mid-season. Now with the mast lowered I was alarmed to see how much pressure the halyard restrainer was putting of the furler extrusion! I pulled the forestay pin out of the masthead and set the furler to one side for the winter.

How do you deal with this while raising and lowering the mast???

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Response Posted - 11/21/2011 :  09:45:57  Show Profile
I don't have a furler, but a few questions do come to mind from reading other threads on the subject:
1. Are you using the forward masthead pin or the second one?
2. Maybe you set the restrainer too low thereby producing too much lateral pull on the furler extrusion?
3. What brand furler do you have?

My guess is that you would need to slack off a bit on the halyard tension to raise/lower the mast so the halyard is not pulling the forestay/furler foil toward the mast.
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Response Posted - 11/21/2011 :  18:21:48  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
Anyone want to explain what a halyard restrainer is in this context?

TIA.

Paul (the asker of many dumb questions)
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Response Posted - 11/21/2011 :  18:38:47  Show Profile
Correct me if I'm wrong - It is a device attached to the mast, think of a tube cut lengthwise and one half attached to the mast that the halyard slides through. It is mounted below the masthead and above the furler swivel, and its purpose is to keep the halyard from wrapping around the forestay.
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Response Posted - 11/21/2011 :  18:57:23  Show Profile
Yep, which should relieve any strain on the extrusion because of the improved alignment.
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Response Posted - 11/21/2011 :  19:53:22  Show Profile
From his question about what to do during raising and lowering the mast, I believe his issue is the foil contacting and deforming on the restrainer when the foil is parallel to the mast.
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Response Posted - 11/22/2011 :  08:55:55  Show Profile
You smart Donny Lu.
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Response Posted - 11/22/2011 :  11:38:37  Show Profile
Here's a pdf on what a halyard restrainer is - including instructions on how to properly install it.

http://www.harken.com/pdf/4410.pdf

Its purpose is to keep the furler halyard from getting tangled with the furler.

According to Kent Nelson, if you don't own a spinnaker - the #1 (most forward) pin on the masthead can be used - which would (naturally) relieve some of the pressure on the extrusion.

I donno, many of the reasons I was reluctant to have a furler in the first place are coming to light!
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Ah! something that CDI furlers don't require.



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