I concur on Martin's comment, it was a noted safety failure on my pre-purchase survey (And a price negotiation point) when I bought the boat.
If the coating has yellow spots (Especially near the fittings)it's probably close to failing. Mine was literally holding by a few threads, if someone would have tripped / relied on them to stop the fall they would have failed for sure. We replaced all with uncovered SS Lines (With 2 sets of gates) "Rigging Only" http://www.riggingonly.com/ had the best price / quality deal. -Francois Rivard 1990 34+ "Take Five" Lake Lanier, GA Message: 13 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:39:08 +0000 From: Martin DeYoung <[email protected]> To: Barbara Hickson Fellers <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Stus-List Quick question re: putting gates in lifelines Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" If your vinyl coated lifelines are more than a few years old, and especially if they have any rust stains near a crack in the vinyl consider replacing them as part of this project. The vinyl hides failing SS wire caused by corrosion. I was unpleasantly surprised by how weak Calypso?s old vinyl covered lifelines had become. Calypso now has un-covered SS wire lifelines. I had the rigging shop re-use most of the hardware which kept the cost down. I sent the old lifelines in to be used as a pattern. If you sail in conditions where having lifelines strong enough to support your crew and guest?s weight might be important, close inspection and early replacement are recommended. If you race, most of the ?offshore? class races now require non-covered lifelines. Martin DeYoung Calypso 1971 C&C 43 Seattle Regards
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