This is done very often in the racing world for weight reduction. Basically, you strip the cover off of a high-tech line like EnduraBraid or Warpspeed or your favorite Vectran cored line.
I did it myself for all my halyards, but I'm funny like that. For one of my halyards, its Endurabraid with the cover stripped off the "end". For another of my halyards, it's an Amsteel "end" spliced to a standard polyester double braid so that I didn't have to pay for the expensive stuff to lay in my cockpit when the sail was up. Regardless, most shops can do this easily. For Example: APSLTD.com is excellent and I've used their services in the past. LAYLINE.com was excellent in the past, but I haven't had the opportunity to use them since they changed management a few years ago. -Keith -----Original Message----- From: djhaug...@juno.com [mailto:djhaug...@juno.com] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 9:28 To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Stus-List Spectra/double braid halyards Hello Again, Has anyone done a spectra/Double braid halyard to replace old wire/double braid halyards? If so, where did you have them done and would know about the splice? I'm going through this exercise for two reasons; It seems like a really good idea for strength and I would not have to replace my sheeves to accommodate a larger diameter line. I'm talking with Cajun ropes now and we're kicking around ideas of how to accomplish the end to end splice. Danny Lolita 1973 Viking 33 Westport Point, MA _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
