Rope for various lines
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 5:09 pm
I think we could discuss the kind of rope we are using for various lines one the DS. Let me describe how my setup has changed over the years.
Originally, at least the older boats started out with 3-strand. I know mine still had jib-sheets and dare I say halyards in that style when I got it.
I also had a ridiculously oversized mainsheet, that someone had retrofitted. I believe it was Samson Gold-braid docking line, something like 5/8", or possibly even larger - it barely fit the blocks on the boom and CB trunk.
The main advantage was that it was easy, very easy to grip and, being so oversized, the fact that the line is intended to stretch didn't matter. It was rigged without a bridle traveler in the back, so the sheet itself formed a triangle between boom and transom.
https://www.fisheriessupply.com/samson-rope-gold-n-braid-double-braid-line
I later changed it (and nearly all the rigging) to some other kinds of rope - that's the subject of the other posts in this thread.
Originally, at least the older boats started out with 3-strand. I know mine still had jib-sheets and dare I say halyards in that style when I got it.
I also had a ridiculously oversized mainsheet, that someone had retrofitted. I believe it was Samson Gold-braid docking line, something like 5/8", or possibly even larger - it barely fit the blocks on the boom and CB trunk.
The main advantage was that it was easy, very easy to grip and, being so oversized, the fact that the line is intended to stretch didn't matter. It was rigged without a bridle traveler in the back, so the sheet itself formed a triangle between boom and transom.
https://www.fisheriessupply.com/samson-rope-gold-n-braid-double-braid-line
I later changed it (and nearly all the rigging) to some other kinds of rope - that's the subject of the other posts in this thread.