The club wayler and a dinghy are having a hard time of it in the heavy winds. We had to string a line across both finger docks to save the wayler and pump it out. 
The anchor rode was too short on the wayler. My j24 looks ok on the breakwall but as I did have one line already chafe through on the swing moorings, I still don’t trust my tying capabilities.
If you’ve got internal sheeting inside your mast, it’s not that easy to fix a broken halyard. Click here to see a video of how it’s done. For help with hoisting yourself up the mast, here’s a contact for a bosun’s chair.
Here’s what it takes when a jib halyard breaks on a J24. After 20 years of service, the halyard broke at the weakest point, the splice at the wire and line. Tom had to go up the mast, Heider and Gord winched him up. It took about 3 hours on a Sunday to get all the team together and the brainpower to complete the process of fishing the line through the interior of the mas
t. Click here to see a video on how the Bossun’s chair works.
Heider has a self hoisting bosson’s chair which helps to hoist the person up the mast at a pace that is best suited to conditions on the water. 