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Old 04-27-2008
Giulietta Giulietta is offline
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TB, yes, all my lines are dyneema, but the ones that are to be touched by the hand are the ones with outer shell, spliced into the thiner shell less rope.

All lines inside mast and the halyards that come from the mast out to the sails and where one doesn't have to grab by hand are simple core dyneema, to reduce friction, specially the ones ran into blocks and sheaves.

The lazy sheet in that photo is under the hatch, but the gap is wider than the sheet thickness. Altough it goes under the hatch gap it does not snag..and never has.

They are normally spliced together at the mast base, here is an example that is my outhaul.



And the photo bellow shows where the halyards transition from thin low friction dyneema rope to thick shell dyneema, (the part that one pulls), you can see the different colour.


Last edited by Giulietta : 04-27-2008 at 01:44 PM.
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