Halyard Hunter!

Marcelle on her way back down the mast, halyard in hand.

After a few weeks of head-scratching on the best and safest way to retrieve Full Moon's main halyard from the top of the mast (see the Invisible Mainsail post), Marcelle "Halyard Hunter" Van Houten volunteered for a trip up the mast in a bosun's chair, with Michael "Muscles" Medina and skipper John "Safety Line" Mengedoht grinding both the jib halyard and standard spinnaker halyard. Since these two halyards don't go to the top of the mast (Full Moon has a fractional rig), Marcelle made use of a lightweight extension pole with "hand-crafted" hook to snag the main halyard and bring it down. Thanks, Marcelle!