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If you're going to replace your lifelines... replace them with uncoated stainless steel. The plastic coating traps water against the stainless steel and leads to crevice corrosion, and hides the problem from easy inspection.
Doing it yourself isn't really a big problem, since there are many ways to do it properly and make perfectly safe lifelines. Mechanical fittings, like Norseman, HiMod, StaLok and such will allow you to terminate the ends equally strongly as a swaged fitting, although at some slight price penalty.
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Sailingdog
Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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