Ok so here is my problem...
My halyard is a 5/32" steel cable swaged to 3/8" line. I would like to change to an all synthetic line but the sheave at the mast head is very narrow and there is NO room to change to a wider sheave.
I can change out the halyard to a 4mm AMsteel Dyneema line which will actually be STRONGER than the stainless steel but I can't imagine trying to hoist the main with a 4mm line....It would sever off my hands!
I figure I have two options
1) Splice the AMsteel line to a thicker conventional line. Similar to the current arrangement but replacing the stainless cable with dyneema. But, I don't know if it is possible to splice the two together strongly enough???
2) Someone suggested taking a polyester jacketed dyneema cored line and stripping the polyester jacket where it goes over the sheave. I don't know if that is possible either and I would be curious how the jacket would stay intact where is was stripped off... i.e. the dyneema core would continue to be extracted/stripped out as the lower jacket was handled.
What do you guys think? How have others handled the converion from steel halyard to synthetic line?
My halyard is a 5/32" steel cable swaged to 3/8" line. I would like to change to an all synthetic line but the sheave at the mast head is very narrow and there is NO room to change to a wider sheave.
I can change out the halyard to a 4mm AMsteel Dyneema line which will actually be STRONGER than the stainless steel but I can't imagine trying to hoist the main with a 4mm line....It would sever off my hands!
I figure I have two options
1) Splice the AMsteel line to a thicker conventional line. Similar to the current arrangement but replacing the stainless cable with dyneema. But, I don't know if it is possible to splice the two together strongly enough???
2) Someone suggested taking a polyester jacketed dyneema cored line and stripping the polyester jacket where it goes over the sheave. I don't know if that is possible either and I would be curious how the jacket would stay intact where is was stripped off... i.e. the dyneema core would continue to be extracted/stripped out as the lower jacket was handled.
What do you guys think? How have others handled the converion from steel halyard to synthetic line?