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     Jeff Roy New member Username: Jeffr Post Number: 101 Registered: 03-2001 Rating: N/A |
I have replaced all of my halyards. I race so I went with hi-tech line all around. My spinnaker and genoa halyards were made up out of 12 strand spectra spliced on to regular XLS tails. Any good rigging shop can do it, they overlap the cores where it goes through the clutches which also helps bulk it up. I am pretty sure it is 1/4" spectra and 5/16" XLS. For the main I used 5/16" Warpspeed (spectra covered with polyester). I found that nothing bigger than 1/4" will pass between the sheave and the halyard gaurd for the genoa halyard, keep that in mind. Most of the time the rigger will only make the stripped ends slightly less than the I dimension. That would leave a little cover coming out of the sheave box when the halyards are not in use. Unfortunately, the cover and bulk splice will get stuck, so the genoa halyard has to have enough stripped line so that the cover never comes out of the sheave box. I think all my halyards ran between 130$ and 150$ |
