[Jeff_H]

If you are going to replace your lifelines yourself, I would make a suggestion. First of all stay away from the traditional plastic coated lifelines. The long term prognosis for vinyl lifelines is not good as the cable can deteriorate undetected and not be as reliable as a lifeline should be. You will probably end up using nicropress fittings for the wire ends. There are inexpensive nicropress crimpers but I would try to get one end of the lifeline done in the store where a good marine suplly store usually has a nicropress crimper that you can use in the store. (The other end must be crimped on the boat so the lines can be thread through the stanchions.)

Plan ''B'' which is more expensive is to have a rigger put a swage type turnbuckle screw on one end and you nicro-press the other so that you can remove a stanchion if you need to.

Make sure that you use the correct thimble at the eye for the wire that you are using for the lifelines and I would do a double nicropress at each terminal if I were going to use one of the inexpensive crimpers.

Its not all that hard to do.

Good luck.

Jeff