Memorial Day Outing
It was cold but totally worth it and it was good to be out on the lake again for the first time this year.
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Dyneema Life lines
With the deck refinished it's time to turn my attention to the lifelines. The lifelines currently on the boat are old plastic-coated, stainless lines, with swagged on fittings. There are a few spots that the plastic coating is wearing pretty thin so as part of the deck reface I decided it was time to replace them as well. After looking around I decided to switch them out with Dyneema line. I found a great source on ebay and picked up some 3/16th 12 strand-braided Dyneema with a 6100lbs breaking strength. This is some great stuff to work with. Eye splices are so much easier than in double braid lines. The hardest part of this project was finding a gate latch that worked well with my stern pulpit. Overall I am very happy with the way these turned out and expect to get a lot of years out of them.