Thanks Josh I have no idea why the British would have adopted those colour systems. I think there are far better colour arrangements on today’s boats (in most of our cases yesterday’s boats).
Typically when cruising the headsail is on a furler so only ever have to hoist main and occasionally a spinnaker. Very little confusion between main and genoa halyard in this case. Typically when racing the main is always up and it is headsails and spinnakers going up and down like yoyos. Again very little chance of confusing main with headsail halyards but lots of room for confusion with headsail and spinnaker halyards. Most racing boats or racer/cruisers have a port and a stbd spin halyard. My suggestion would be to have these red and green for obvious reasons. White for genoa halyard would then distinguish it from the spin halyards. On Persistence all halyards that came with the boat are variants of the same colour. This has been made worse as UV has faded the sections inside the mast less than the sections typically exposed. This makes it sometimes difficult to identify the line at the mast as the same one as the working end with the shackle. One trick is to put coloured balls at the shackle end to make life easier for foredeck. Red/Greed/White. Failing that a simple solution is to wrap the shackle end with coloured tape Red/Green/White at the splice (or in our case knot). One amusing story from last year occurred when we had a friend who normally races Wednesdays on another boat sailing with us on a weekend. The Red tape on the port spin halyard was frayed so he helpfully re taped it from a roll of white tape he had on hand. The next Wednesday this caused some momentary confusion … Hope this helps Mike Persistence Halifax From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Josh Muckley via CnC-List Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 7:54 AM To: C&C List Cc: Josh Muckley Subject: Re: Stus-List New lines and hayalards I, Josh, found this on my internet travels: "I was taught (by an English race crew) that Mainsail controls are always green, jib sails blue and spinnakers red. Halyards are solid colors and sheets, outhauls etc. flecked or with tracers. (By following this convention, crews are able to move from boat-to-boat without having to be re-educated.)" - source unknown I like Yale crystalline and Sampson Warpspeed. I would select based on availability, cost, and color. Here's an article that compares halyard factors. https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8pEh5lnvP1ySGpOTUdGRW9xdzQ Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD
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