I am planning to get a new pendant for my mooring float and have been reading up on the topic. I am surprised by the variety of solutions I am seeing and few are complete. My plan was to put a nylon pendant and luggage hitch on a NE Ropes cyclone dyneema segment on one arm of the double. The cyclone is 5’ or 8’ long. My old pendant is 12’ long. So I am thinking a 5’ cyclone and 7-8 foot nylon/poly 3/4” for one side. What I am more unsure of is what to do with the other arm of the pendant. I like the idea of a double as it gives redundancy in the event of a failure at that part of the chain of connections. Presumable, I would do that in all nylon/poly. But should it be the same length or longer so it only comes into play in the event of a primary failure. Alternatives I see are making it the same length or making it shorter so that the dynema arm is the emergency backup. I thought the science of this would be all worked out by now but it seems not. The results of the cyclone/dyneema study in the Boston area seems to be pretty strong that it does not fail due to chafe which was the major source of failures in that area. So perhaps the second pendant is overkill? Dave
S/V Aries 1990 C&C 34+ New London, CT
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