Replacing running rigging

[Swanrad2]

Replacing some of the Halyards - anyone have any recommendations for good (cheap) suppliers?

 

[Fantasie 19]

This'll give you some idea's..

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?392846-Running-Riging-Suppliers

 

[prv]

I buy most of my rope from Barry Edwards. He doesn't have an online shop as such - it's a mixture of email and ebay - but googling Barry Boatropes should find him.

Pete

 

[Highndry]

I've PM'd you his email address. He sorted my lines out last year, great deals but no fancy Dyneema type stuff.

 

[blackbeard]

What's the reason for replacing the running rigging? if it's a meaty chunk of polyester, it should last a good few years.

(I'm reminded that my topping lift is about 14 years old and about 8 mm - is it still OK?)

(And ... I know that nylon doesn't last quite so well due to uv - does that mean that I need to replace my mooring lines? 14 mm or thereabouts octoplait)

 

[jerrytug]

What's the reason for replacing the running rigging? if it's a meaty chunk of polyester, it should last a good few years.

(I'm reminded that my topping lift is about 14 years old and about 8 mm - is it still OK?)

(And ... I know that nylon doesn't last quite so well due to uv - does that mean that I need to replace my mooring lines? 14 mm or thereabouts octoplait)

I'm going to replace my topper because it's 15 yrs old and 8mm like yours, and it is faded and brittle. The thing is, I often hang off it as a handhold, and if it snapped it would be a broken bone or something.

 

[jwilson]

What's the reason for replacing the running rigging? if it's a meaty chunk of polyester, it should last a good few years.

Eventually UV gets even good quality polyester rope - the day it is really windy is not the day you want to find that out. Once sailed a boat in with a too-fat mooring warp replacing one genoa sheet and a too-thin spinnaker sheet the other. The originals looked OK but kept breaking either at the turning block or the bowline at the sail clew.

 

[Swanrad2]

I'm replacing because I have had the mast down and inspected everything, a couple of the lines have patches of chafe which although probably it fatal makes me think I'll swap them while the mast is down. It is so much more nerve wracking running a new Halyard through the sheaves when its 30 foot up.

Cheers,

 

[Tranona]

Wash your old rigging first before you ditch it. You might find some still serviceable. Replacing halyards with the mast up is also easy if your old halyards are there by using either a mousing line or sewing your new rope to the end of the old.