Most often, halyard damage occurs at or near the eye splice at the working end. When buying halyards, particularly hi-tech halyards, I buy them 10-15 feet extra long so I can end for end them. If the byte end hasn't been loaded, you can usually splice an eye in it. Over the years, I truly believe I've saved money by doing this.
Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA
Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA
From: niall buckley <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, December 2, 2013 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: Stus-List halyards again
Hi David,I switched to spectra for both genoa halyards and the main halyard.They are expensive, they are much nicer on the hands and there isno noticeable stretch. The weight aloft does make a difference....Idon't remember the numbers but 10 lbs aloft equals one man on therail.....or something like that !!Now, bear in mind that I am a recovering racer and have carbon mainand headsails.Makes a difference and, after all, isn't your boat as special to you asany AC vessel.Niall Buckley.CC41 Ardea 2On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:58 AM, David Knecht <[email protected]> wrote:I was thinking about the recent discussions of new high tech halyards and have a question. The PO replaced my halyards with all rope, but I don’t know what kind it is. I have noticed significant changes in sail shape over a day of sailing which I am presuming is stretch. Given the length of a rope halyard for a C&C, the stretch factor seems like a serious issue. If you have 60’ of line after uphaul, then 2-4% stretch becomes a significant amount of change in mainsail shape. Those are the kinds of stretch numbers I am seeing for lower tech line. I don’t want to have to adjust the halyard during a race when shorthanded. One solution seem to be to use a low stretch line (spectra core, etc.) and the other is wire/rope. It looks like wire-rope is actually less expensive, so what is the down side? Are they less durable? If someone says weight, then I am going to ask for a calculation of the relative weight difference of wire vs rope given the huge mass of aluminum and dacron we all have sticking 40’ off the deck. I am hard pressed to believe that small weight difference is significant for non-Americas cup sailors. DaveDavid KnechtAries1990 C&C 34+New London, CT
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