My Adjustable, No-Creep, and Smooth Halyard System

[Big Jay]

Ok, i posted this in another thread on this forum but i figured i would give it a thread of it's own with a drawing...well a poor attempt at a drawing.

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How many times have you clipped that bungee on your halyard pulley to the gunnel at the right tension only to find 2 weeks later your mono and/or bungee has stretched and now needs adjustment? How many times have you said "Man, this halyard has too much slack now that the outrigger is down." or "Crap, now the halyard is too-tight now that we put the riggers back up and its bending the rigger tips?"

This eliminates JUST that and more.

How about when you are running a big squid or GM spreader bar and all your halyards seem like they are flopping in the breeze from all that pull?

Tighten it up with this system.

First and foremost, you will need:

-2 Hal-Lock Pulley Rigs of your choice (single, double, or triple)
www.alltackle.com

-Maybe 10' of 3 Strand 1/4" Dockline Low (small enough to fit through the lance cleat listed below)

-2 Lance Cleats
www.westmarine.com


Instructions


1) With a wire cutter, snip off the snap that comes on the end of the hal-lock bungee attached to the ring. LEAVE THE RING.

2) Take maybe 3' of the low diameter nylon dock line and loop splice one end of it to the ring on the Hal-Lock. If you don't know how to splice, have an old salt at the dock do it for in exchange for a cold one.

3) Now, take your Lance cleat and mount it on the gunnel with self-tappers IN PRE-DRILLED HOLES SEALED WITH A SMALL AMOUNT OF SILICONE. I know self-tappers are the devil but sometimes you have no choice. Mount where you would NORMALLY clip your halyard pulled rig to. you want to mount this so line is pulled OUTBOARD and to tighten it you pull the tag in INBOARD.

4) Feed the free end of the nylon line through the jam cleat, make a knot in very end of the free end so it can't slip through the jam cleat.

5) Rig your mono halyards through the pulley already attached to the jam cleat. Give yourself enough room on the rope to adjust in the cleat. You want to be able to pull it tight in the lance cleat without running out of rope but don't want it so loose that you need to reach 3 ft. out when the riggers are deployed.

[Big Jay]

Pardon me, but i made a mistake in the illustration. That's a LANCE CLEAT not a JAM CLEAT.

[Big Jay]

Oops double post. Sorry.

[WAHOONBOX]

I WILL NEVER EVER HAND DRAW ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION..


YOUR DRAWING IS SUPERB!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OUTSTANDING!!! THIS THREAD IS ABSOLUTELY WHAT AND WHY THIS FORUM WAS CREATED !


I LOOSEN MY HALYARD TO YA DUDE! I MEAN TIP MY RIGGAS.....

[cdail28590]

It seems like I remember in another post someone talking about having separate halyards for each line because if you used the double or triple halyards they would affect the other lines when deployed. Is this true? I know almost all the boats I have been on don't use separate halyards for each line.

[Big Jay]

It seems like I remember in another post someone talking about having separate halyards for each line because if you used the double or triple halyards they would affect the other lines when deployed. Is this true? I know almost all the boats I have been on don't use separate halyards for each line.

I think it depends on a few factors:

1) Whether its a vertical or horizontal pulley. We use to have a vertical...one halyard on top of the other...that caused tension problems. When we went to the horizontal block, no problems

2) Whether you use mono or cord. I honestly don't know of many people using cord (parachute style) anymore. The mono has some flex to it so if one halyard is running tight, it usually doesn't effect the others.

3) Whether or not you use this system. When we use this adjustable system and are running multiple lines off one rigger, if one halyard slacks up due to pull on another, just pull some rope through the lance cleat to tighten it back up. Problem solved.

[TROPHY SPORTFISHING]

double for your long and short then a single seperate for teaser retrieval go straight cord or mono loose the bungee cord.

[Gut Wrench]

i do somethng similar,only i drilled a whole in the gunnel and feed the dock line thru there and i have a jam cleat mounted under the gunnel,i can tighten them down as tight as anyone would want,the riggers can have a nice bow in them...since this is a center console i still have to stow away the riggers and i use a jam cleat on the hardtop to hold everything snug...i will take pics this weekend...

i got these ideas from a sporty,just walk thru the marina and you will see all kinds of new ideas..

[bisquit]

"since this is a center console i still have to stow away the riggers and i use a jam cleat on the hardtop to hold everything snug...i will take pics this weekend..."

I've been trying to solve this dilemma for a while, so I look forward to seeing how you stow away your riggers.

[Gut Wrench]

this is the best i could get for now.

the first one is the whole thru the gunnel,i forget what they called that little piece but i got it at west marine..


the second pic is the cam cleat under the gunnel..nice clean and very functional.


the 3rd pic is the riggers stored for running,i use the jam cleat and since the short rigger has extra slack,i use a velcro wrap on the riggers to hold the release clips from slapping around and i also use a small bungee(6 in?)to add extra tension to the lines..


i will try to get pics of them extended and in use as soon as this week stops blowing,finally warm ater shows up and now the wind is here too