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I may attempt another method, unless Brion or someone else, talks me out of it.
A know-it-all friend of mine sez to send an electricians "snake" up the mast from the
halyard's exit box at the base of the mast. He asserts that it will be easier to see and grab the snake at the sheave - with me at the top of the mast. Then pull the snake's end out, attach the new halyard, pull it back down. Whadda' you think?