Halyard retainer

Abstract

The invention provides a halyard retaining device for securing a plurality of halyards to a mast track in a rearward side of an elongate mast, the device comprising: a collar having a plurality of shoulders; a clamp, on the collar, for releasably slidably mounting the collar at any selected position along the mast track; a plurality of arms each having: a base end pivotally mounted to an associated shoulder; and a distal end each having a detent, the arms being independently pivotable to an extended position wherein halyard detents are radially spaced about the mast at a lateral distance therefrom; and a lock, mounted to each of the shoulders and associated arm base ends, for releasably locking each arm in an independently selected extended position relative to the associated shoulder of the collar.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.