hoisting sail

[Roland of Macatawa]

Bruce,

This time last season, I replaced all three full-swivel blocks on my 3:1 Peak Halyard with fixed blocks because the line was prone to winding up.
Initially, I only replaced the one on the gaff spar because that was where the windup, and the resulting binding up, was occurring.
But replacing only it just chased the problem to another, so I replaced all three.

I used the Harken Carbo 40mm Fixed block:
https://www.harken.com/productdetail.aspx?id=4645&taxid=417

I'm glad I did.
Now the shackles of the fixed blocks give enough freedom to let the halyard self-align but prevent the full rotational twist up.

Simply trying to work all the twist out of the line first had been insufficient to eliminate the wind up.

Regards, Roland

[bruce]

Yup, that's why I did it. Good luck sorting out your remaining issues.