We replaced our halyards a couple of years ago with StaySetX - I thought
they were from Yale Cordage, but not sure. Used 9/16", it's a little easier
to handle if your shives can take it. Terminated with Wichard clasps but if
I had it to do over again I would use the reinforced shackle with a captured
pin (pin looks to be about 1/2" or so). We hired someone to do the splices
since our splicing frighten small children - and dogs.
If you are bound to check for dry rot, check the stem, thru the cabin roof
and into the bottom of the chain locker. Most common place for rot.
Once upon a time we had a 1906 vintage house in Alameda with a large wooden
front door. There was eighty years of paint on that door but we were
determined to strip it back to wood. The gels and paint removers just pushed
the paint around and didn't remove it from the grain. It turned out that a
heat gun and a scraper were the easiest approach. We used them to remove
about twenty years of varnish on our boat as well. And our door was of
beautiful cross-cut oak when we finally got to the wood.
Never seen wire fender cages on a sailboat and I suspect that is because
they would present a fair amount of resistance to water flow when you are
heeled over - same with kayaks, windsurfing boards, and all sorts of other
stuff you COULD tie to the sides... And it's not that you never expect to be
heeled over so far - in choppy water waves will pile themselves up on your
deck no matter what.
Michael
S/V Cambria

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