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jroy
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Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2001 - 09:37 am:
Yes there is a pin that is held captive by a cover plate on the side of the mast.
The biggest obstacle is the halyard gaurd which has to be removed first. It has a single machine screw on the front of the mast and a pair of bolts on the top.
That screw was siezed on my mast and after a week of penetrating oil I tried to remove it with a lot of heat, more oil and an impact driver. After backing it out 1 1/2 turns the head snapped off. In the end I had to drill the screw out and retap the mast.
I was lucky that the screws holding the genoa pin cover came out with only one whack from the impact driver. I was not so luck with the cover for the main halyard pin.
I did all this while my mast was on saw horses. Unless you have recently backed these fasteners out and/or replaced them, I think the odds are the sheaves cannot be replaced from a bosuns chair.
