Is everyone pretty much going to the tang on the mast with a spectra tail to a block that is attached to the mast by a line around the mast attached to the luff track?
I was at Key today and saw that most of the N20s had it done this way. My boat has the cheek block about a foot above the stainless bale that the line goes through. I had a really hard time getting the spin halyard up the last couple feet under any load. If we were DDW it worked ok but with trying to keep any height above DDW and raising the spin it was a big pain. I looked up the mast and the halyard did NOT seem to catch on the hounds and there was no chafing on the tape I covered the hounds with when I checked later. I think it has to be that 90 deg angle with the halyard coming around the bale which is causing 90% of the prob. Anyone have any ideas/opinions? I am close to switching it to the way the N20s have it at Key (I think this is a mod, not the way they come stock).