Gregory's ServerTook the lifelines off Pino, we will replace them with dyneema soon. I found many cracks and broken strands, it's scary to think that these were what was supposed to keep up on deck if we had an accident while working topside.
https://100r.co/site/lifelines.html
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@neauoire the nice thing about lifelines is they're not under exceptionally high tension and lashings give you quite a bit of margin so you don't need the super fancy heat set dyneema. the cheaper regular stuff will do. @chainik we're going to go see what's available to us tomorrow, I think about getting the basic stuff as well. Not sure what thickness yet, but something that's thick enough that we can hold onto. @neauoire i used 6mm which is thick enough to comfortably hold onto for the top one and 4mm which is strong enough but too thin to be comfortable for the bottom one. 8mm might be even better but that starts getting expensive. watch out for chafe passing through the stanchions! @chainik I was going to put a thick heatshrink or a piece of tube where it goes through. Did you put anything? @ccohanlon I'll share loads of pictures as we progress on this :) stay tuned. Do you have plans to do the same?  @neauoire At some point in the next year, I plan to replace all the wire rigging and the guard rails with dyneema (inspired by @chainik). I'm increasingly taken with sailing Wrack as a 'softer', less tightly 'secured' boat. It feels more in keeping with her age — old wooden gaffers are rigged and sailed similarly, with everything looser. That said, I've also been inspired by the 'soft' rigging and blockless sheeting arrangements of tiny 6.50m mini-transat boats, of which there are a few here. @neauoire Ouch. I had the same plastic covering on the standing rigging and the lifelines on Astragale. I removed them too when a more experienced neighbour told me about the risk of hidden corrosion. Thankfully it was early enough - and the previous owner had put a lot of grease inside the sheathing so it was dirty and sticky at removal but it probably helped protecting the lines! @mapper nice, that's lucky! Do you keep a page on your sailboat projects somewhere btw? |
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