Remotely operable latch for a pulley-type endless halyard

A remotely operable latch system for an endless halyard, comprising:

• a traveller comprising an elongated body that extends between a nose and a tail;
• a tubular hollow dock elongated between a back end and an open mouth for receiving the traveller by the nose and thereafter the tubular hollow dock and traveller latching together;
• a fishing-line release provision conjoined to the traveller;
• proximal tackle adapted to be mounted to a boat;
• distal tackle conjoined with the dock adapted to be mounted at or near a tip of an outrigger spar;
• and
• an elongated halyard having a distal end associated with the nose of the traveller, a proximal end associated with the fishing-line release provision, and extended between passing distally around the distal tackle and passing proximally around the proximal tackle;
• wherein said traveller has a sidewall and said dock has an inside sidewall, one of which sidewall of the traveller or inside sidewall of the dock is formed with a groove;
• the other of the inside sidewall of the dock or sidewall of the traveller is provided with a stylus for tracing the groove in the one of said sidewall of the traveller or inside sidewall of the dock that is formed with the groove;
• said groove forming a circuit comprising an inbound opening, cleavage, an inbound loop extending between the inbound opening and the cleavage, an outbound opening, and an outbound loop extending between the cleavage and the outbound opening;
• whereby the traveller latches in the dock when the stylus is caught in the cleavage of the groove.