Roller Furl stuck at masthead. HELP!!!

I NEED HELP!!!

I own a '67 Yorktown 39.4 sloop, I have a roller furl reefing system on the forward jib. it is the kind of furl that rolls the jib around the stay, without the stay twisting itself. (there is a sheath on the stay). the bearing near the masthead is seized, I think.

anyone ever have this problem and fix it WITHOUT taking the stay off?

it is an option, I have a secondary forward stay the connects mid deck, for the secondary jib. But i would rather NOT spend a day with my boat taken apart.

if not, any easy ways to take down the stay and furl? I am a rope rigger, but not a very experienced sailor. I am planning on tensioning the secondary forward stay, and then loosening the main forward stay, pull pin on bow, and then climb mast and slowly lower the stay/furl to the dock.

haha... our spinnaker halyard is seized as well. at least we think it is.

main halyard is ok, there is an empty secondary pully for an aft hoist.

the secondary jib halyard is free and ok,

there is a spinnaker halyard is coming from the top of the mast, and there is another halyard coming from the bottom of the mast, but the spinnaker line will not respond to it. I went up there today, and oiled everything, I hope it will sink in by morning and free it up, but I'm guessing not.

to clarify

from MASTHEAD- main, secondary jib, jib, spinnaker.

from mast base- main, secondary jib, ?,

It seems that there are 4 lines from the masthead, but only 3 halyard lines from the base.

confusion here.

I really don't want to de rig a 40' boat.

today, I scaled the mast again, this time armed with a few big wrenches.

I put them both on the halyard furl pulley. and CRANKED.

after about 5 min of straining, I turned it. then drenched it with penetrating oil.

the Furl now works perfectly. we plan on de-rigging it for a bearing replacement as soon as we get our ship home.

as for the spinnaker halyard, another non-smooth story.

I tossed the line on a winch, and cranked it, 5:1. broke it free. same story, we will get it replaced as soon as we get home. 500nm to go.

the jib halyard we are not going to mess with, since the jib is furling, we wont worry about that until home is reached.

our latest problem, is the Perkins 4.108. she is not seized, but our deep cycles are shot, and the starters are about 50%. we replace those tomorrow.
we cannot get home without a motor. well, maybe.

finally, our masthead remote wind sensor (direction and speed) is broken. where can we find a replacement? it plugs into the mast, as if it were an easily replaceable part.

thanks a lot guys, even if I used my testosterone instead of my better judgment. I promise, I'm not the one in charge out at sea

Norseman,
thanks for the words. As I just came into possession of this ship, I don't know much about the 4.108, but i have heard a lot of good things.

and no, deep's are not for starting, we have marine starting batts for that.

all are being replaced.

problem is, our marina is kicking us out, something about a potato canon war and unpaid slip fees. wasn't really listening. we have another week to vacate.
so... the marina owner is giving us a lot of help to get away.

motor should be purring tommorow, changed oil today, turned it with a wrench.
it was running two years ago, just fine.

be well...

we are Monterey Bay bound soon enough.

Garry,
that was it, yep. but we got it fixed. thanks!!!

test run today, had all sails up and full. Spin is beautiful!

but then... HORROR!!!! we lit up the motor (bought a NEW bank of EIGHT deep cycle 27s, and found that motor started just fine after a new starter)

oh yeah... horror. motoring out of the marina, past the gate, and opened her up. at about 2000-2400 rpm, she vibrated vilently, lost power, and spewd grayish smoke. after bring throttle down below 1500, she purrs again fine.

sigh.

our new life raft got hear today, new hardware, I rigged a new main halyard last night, new vang, and I took a pattern to rebuild the mainsail cover.

help? we are getting really close. I can feel it.