Threading halyards
Having acted as boatswain for Lyme Regis Sea School for the past 25 years I have spent a great deal of time re-threading halyards that have broken or been pulled out of masts by overenthusiastic students.
The traditional manner to replace them involves lowering the mast, attaching a small, weighty object to a length of fishing line, inserting it at the halyard’s pulley, partially erecting the mast and feeding the
