Recent content by ash2020

I don't know if you've got room to get one of these down the hole, I've got one and the end is a bit less than 12mm diameter. Claw picker

I'm lashing the ends just to get the length right as I'm fitting pelican clips for ease of getting our dogs on and off. I'm not worried about cutting as the pelican clips are pretty much instant.

Thanks.

I'm not going to be using dyneema for the whole thing, just the end lashings to get the right lemgth.

Never used it so I'm a bit in the dark.

Thank you for that comprehensive information. I imagined dyneema was dyneema, i.e. a standard breaking strain, didn't realise there was low quality dyneema. So what would the recommendation be? Type and no of turns for a small cruising vessel? Dyneema or polyester? Thanks again.

Yes, very interesting. Thank you.

I think I will go for 4mm polyester. Thanks

That's a good point. I hadn't considered that. Thanks.

I need to lash the guard rails to the pulpit rails where there is a 3" gap. Would 2mm dyneema be suitable, maybe 4 turns? It says it has a breaking strain of 200kg. If it has 4 turns does that mean the total breaking strain is 800kg or is it still 200kg?

Why not use galvanised screws? Plenty available on Amazon and other places.

Wow! I saw that boat when I lived there and kept my boat at Creran. Always lusted after her but could never afford. Go for it!

I am using the paid version. I've worked it out now. UK charts installed. I'm finding the interface bit clunky compared to Navionics.

Thank you. I will try that.