Hi All,
I recently purchased an '89 H17 with sport conversion and been figuring out how it all goes together. Sunday I raised the mainsail for the 1st time & then wondered where on earth do I tie off the main halyard.?? Dropped the sail and used a little google foo & discovered the hook, dropped the mast so I could take a look at it and figure out how it works and found what you see in the pic. Is what I'm looking at pinned with the rivet the 'old flopper'? At the moment it's bound up on the partially obscured rivet tail to the right of the pivot point - it looks like it was designed to rotate between the 2 rivet tails counter clockwise of where it currently sits.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/fvkgwcW5R4nf8XGZ9