Hi Charlie,
I've made a similar repair you suggest many times on halyard covers
that gets loaded too much and parts when the clutch slips. My
stitching simply runs parallel to the core and circumferential around
the joint of the cover (right angle to the break). I half hitch
regularly so a broken thread doesn't unravel the whole thing.
For the very first repair I had plenty of time (Van Isle 360) and a
bit o' rum so I opened up and "wove" the cover together before backup
stitching but subsequent repairs were as above.
Cheers, Russ
Sweet 35 mk-1
At 08:46 AM 10/05/2017, you wrote:
One of my jib sheets' cover split during my last racing
adventure--of course a little too far from either end to just cut or
reverse the line. The line is 3/8" Endura braid with a dyneema core
which is fine--and at 10,000 lbs breaking strength should stay fine!
I have some experience in adding covers to smaller line to thicken
it up for my rope clutches and I have already 'snaked' the core thru
the end so that the covers meet.
My thought is to just put a bunch of thru stitches at right angles
to each other from one side of the broken cover to the other and
"...drive on", saving myself about a boat buck in the process.
Any thoughts on this from the list?
Charlie Nelson
Water Phantom
C&C 36 XL/kcb
cenel...@aol.com
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