Jeff Roy (Jeffr)
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 | Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 08:24 am: | |
The previous owner of my boat replaced all the halyards with 1/4" T900 last year. He was using the wrong halyrad for his spinnaker, which caused chafe problems. He ended up having a 3/32 wire tail on it. He said the 1/4" T900 is more than strong enough and has excellent strectch and creep charactersistics. However he said they hate the line because it is impossible to work with. I asked about having a thicker cover put on the tails and he said they would not do it, especially on T900 that had been under load. Just to much work. I am going to replace the primary genoa halyard --the one that was misused for the chute -- with 1/4" spec 12 with a cover sewn on the tail. They recomended spectra because it is the most durable line and I am bound to have a lot of chafe where the halyard runs through the halyard deflector needed for the roller furler. This was actually his second choice. His first choice would have been to use 1/4" Yale Aracom T with a short spectra pigtail where at the end that attaches to the sail. Unfortunately, there seemse to be no Aracom T available from any of the distributors. I found that the short horzontal bar on the halyard gaurd seriously limits the size line that can be used on the genoa halyard. I am surprised that some of you were able to use 3/8" halyards. Did you have to modify the halyard gaurd and/or replace the sheave for the genoa halyard? |