Bobby Steele
Member II
I noticed our mainsail halyard is fraying - so we're due for a replacement. My question is; should I stay with wire/rope, or go with dyneema rope? It seems it'd be much easier to splice to dyneema.
Different type of line construction. No relation to "Sta Set X".What is the issue with the Sta-Set lines?
It depends. Are your halyards led aft? Do you want to have "extra" in some maneuvers?According the the E34-2 manual, it calls for 58’rope/54’wire - so I’ll need 112’
Double braid, from my observation means a core and a cover. The cover will help protect the dyneema core from chafe. The main problem with dyneema in my opinion. That and you can't knot it very easily. You can however splice and eye rather quickly if you don't include the cover.I’m not really sure what’s meant by double- braid etc… but I’m pretty much sold on the dynema. Should I use all dynema on the halyards, or splice it to the regular rope as with wire? I plan on replacing all of our lines. The previous owner must’ve bought a spool of line, since they’re all the same which gets confusing at times. We’re going for different colors to avoid dropping the main when we were supposed to loose the sheet…
I don’t even think you can get wire/rope combo anymore. Either way, dyneema all the way. It’s stronger and lighter than the wire/rope combo. We made the switch about 12 years ago on our E27. Just do a single solid piece, and consider switching to running your halyards internal to the mast at the same time.I noticed our mainsail halyard is fraying - so we're due for a replacement. My question is; should I stay with wire/rope, or go with dyneema rope? It seems it'd be much easier to splice to dyneema.
That manual for the 34-2 was written at least 34 years ago, well before Dyneema became well known in the 1990s. Wire was used to minimize stretch, and that is exactly what Dyneema excels at too. Plus it costs a lot less.What is the issue with the Sta-Set lines? Are they not good just as Halyards? Can they work well enough as Sheets? According the the E34-2 manual, it calls for 58’rope/54’wire - so I’ll need 112’ of Dyneema. Or is some of those lengths for the overlap of splicing?