450: Main Halyard Chafe

[Catopia]

We are having issues with main halyard chafe on our L450. The chafe is occurring on the halyard about 3 feet from the masthead connection point. In the last 2 years we have had to cut the chafed section 4 times.

Is anyone else with a 450 having this problem? Were you able to find the cause and a solution?

Thanks,
Dean.

[neilpride]

Could be the sheave at the top, big gap between sheave and the mast fitting or the end of the mast sail track if you reef the sail, slide a Dyna cover in the halyard at the chafe point and splice it or use another chafe resistant cover to that point...

[Catopia]

Thanks for the suggestion. I found this online and may give that a try. ​

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