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PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 3:39 pm 
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Do I need to shave it into a bullet shape?

It's coming to a hard stop. Used to be difficult and now it's impossible.

Slides thru no problem without a sail attached.


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:06 am 
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Keep a bit of tension on the halyard while lowering. Slack will allow the bead to hit the track. Tension helps it stand clear.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2020 3:10 am 
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mmiller wrote:
Keep a bit of tension on the halyard while lowering. Slack will allow the bead to hit the track. Tension helps it stand clear.


This problem occurs when raising the sail whether or not the pill is inside or outside the track. Older mast w single sheave that turns easy.


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:30 am 
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If I understand your problem correctly, it could be that the nicopress fitting ("pill") is catching on the halyard hook....common problem on older, all aluminum masts. Try standing further forward (near the bow) while raising the main. Once fully raised (fittings clear of hook), walk the halyard back toward the mast (maintaining downward tension so it doesn't slip) and engage the fitting under the hook.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:45 am 
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If one is inside the track, hoist the halyard like a flag halyard... tie in a continuous loop. get the beads up and over the top. As noted, if the beads are catching on the hook you need to stand further away from the mast to clear them. When lowering, keep tension on both the lines as the beads go over the top and then clear the mast track opening at the top. They both need to be outside the luff track. If you just let the rope go when lowering, the beads may catch on the track opening. With a little tension on the halyard, they should clear that easily.

Video of what is happening would help too.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:51 am 
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Sometimes, the metal over the top of the sheeve gets bent from hitting something, that cuts down on the amount of clearance for the nicropress sleeve. Play with it, with the mast down, and you should be able to see the problem. If it's bent like I'm talking about, it's no worry to grind out the offending bent part.


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 12:07 pm 
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My reef bead also gets stuck in the mast track when lowering the main sail.

Since the reef is not used much any more, is there any easy way of removing (or tapering) the reef bead without damaging the wire part of the halyard? That section of the main halyard only has some tension on it during the raising or lowering of the main sail.

To solve this problem, I filed down this reef bead so it could easily pass thru the mast's luff track. What is interesting is that over many years of the reef bead being inside of the mast track, the copper bead had corroded some of the aluminum luff track.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 12:33 pm 
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Just keep a little tension on the halyard until that bead gets up and over the mast head, then past the top of the track. It works.

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