Anyone know what a "mainstay cable" is?

I take it he had an inner mainstay cable as well or he might have lost the sticky up thing as well.
 
it's the mainbrace that was the hardest rigging splice to make, hence after its completion, the reward of rum to the crew.


Oh, PS, I see that one of the mainstays has now become a forestay, but the snapped mainstay is still there, in the original news release from the RNLI on the frontpage.
 
'cable' is a way of combining 3 hawser-laid ropes (what we think of as normal boaty rope) in a lay that is against their own lay direction, so that you have a stronger, more chafe-resistant, more elastic, but less flexible rope. As used in anchor cable or towing cables. They are b*ggars to splice.
 
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