wire-rope splicing

[jonty]

I have a couple of grotty looking ropes spliced onto wire that I would like to replace - the wire is good. I am replacing the main halyard with dyneema but the others are not suitable. Can anyone give me any hints / instructions on how to do this myself?

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[kingfisher]

Lose the wire alltogether. Steel wire is too heavy and it chafes the mast and the sails.With the current technology in running rigging, there is absolutely no use for steel wire. They're even replacing the standing rigging wire with rope.

You might have to replace some halyard sheeves, such as I did. I needed to get them custom made, cost me all of 20€.

If you want to splice rope to wire, you will have to use a 3-stranded rope, which is not nearly as strong as cored rope. Unless you want to use multiplaid, but good luck in splicing that.

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[Guest]

<<If you want to splice rope to wire, you will have to use a 3-stranded rope, which is not nearly as strong as cored rope.>>

????????? You sure about that ?? Having spliced various different construction ropes to wire and other - I am amazed at such sweeping statement ....

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[dickh]

Hmm - my wire/rope halliards have been spliced and the rope is a braided construction and seems to work well. Have considered replacing with all rope halliards but untill they get to the point of wearing out I'm going to leave them alone.

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[extravert]

> Lose the wire altogether. Steel wire is...

That's what I thought, but my boat (Dragonfly trimaran) has a wire jib halyard spliced on to a cored rope tail. Most of the other running rigging is kevlar, and I'm not sure why a wire/rope combination was used for the jib halyard alone. It's a modern design with a carbon mast, so there must be some reason. Next time I meet the designer I will ask and report back here.

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[kingfisher]

Oh yes, there is more than just 3-stranded rope. There is also 4-stranded and multistrand. But that is just more of the same thing. Either way, these are less suitable as halyards as their very construction makes them more prone to stretch.

So, how do you splice braided rope to a wire?

But sticking to a wire-rope combination, limits your choice in rope ánd wire.

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