SL1 - internal halyard questions

[Joy]

Does anyone have a SL1 daysailer with the halyards running internally to the bottom of the mast? If so, where do you cleat them? We have removed the hatch door.
Where do you put your spinnaker bag?
Any pictures would be helpful too!!
Thanks so much!

[GreenLake]

Welcome to the forum! You're asking a question that's very specific to your model. Let's see whether we can get as specific response here from a fellow SL 1 sailor.

Just out of curiosity, where are the existing halyard cleats on your boat?

[tc53]

Hi. I'm in the process of trying to rehabilitate my 1959 Daysailer 1, sold to a buyer two years ago and recently given back to me in derelict condition by that buyer. On this boat, the main, jib and spinnaker halyards are routed inside the mast, down to a mast base that includes three sheaves, one for each. The main halyard is "cleated" when the wire loop at the rope-wire junction pulls through the sheave and is then hooked to a small stainless hook fastened to the mast about 12" up from the base on the starboard side of the mast. Very reliable but a very awkward reach for whoever is doing the raising and lowering. My spinnaker halyard is all rope. It exits the mast base on the middle sheave and is led back to a cam on the aft port side of the CB trunk so it can be raised and lowered by the person at the helm. For the jib halyard, I have rigged up a small 4-1 halyard tensioner that is anchored on the underside of the port thwart, the forward end of which has a short length of stainless cable with a hook at the end. As with the main halyard, the wire loop where the jib halyard goes from rope to wire pulls through the sheave at the bottom port side of the mast base and then is hooked to that 4-1 tensioner, allowing for some halyard tension adjustment, which is cleated in a small cam mounted on the aft underside of the thwart on the port side. Whew! Harder to describe than I thought!

All that said, that three sheave mast base, I've discovered, has one sheave completely frozen from corrosion. Does anyone have any advice on how to free up that sheave or where I can purchase a replacement for the mast heel altogether?

[GreenLake]

I've taken the liberty to edit the thread subject as it's now been hijacked to discuss internal halyards. Hopefully that will help this get some attention.