We have four Endura Braid Lines on our Farrier F36/39
Trimaran (Spinaker
Halyard, 2-part Main
Halyard, 2-part Screecher Halyard, and
Jib Halyard)
The Main and
Spinnaker Halyard is now four years old and traveled over 22,000 miles from
Canada to
New Zealand. These have worked well and have a very nice hand and acceptably low stretch for a performance cruising
trimaran.
The Screecher and
Jib Halyards are new this month.
The new lines are both bleeding copious amounts of dye from their
dyneema core. The Blue one is far worse.
They have stained our decks,
mast, hands, and other
dyneema lines that these halyards have touched.
Apparently
New England Ropes have had this issue in a very mild form with all their Endura Braid but according to the Factory Representative (Peter) They had a bad run where their
core dying machine was "spurting" dye and apparently overloading the core with this dye. Please take a look at our pictures.
We have taken the new halyards down and have detergent washed the Blue Fleck Line eleven times. At the re-sellers request; We have Tensioned the 167 foot Halyard twice at over 1-Ton loading to "wring out" the blue dye. We also did gentle
power washing to rinse the line with a 2,000 psi pressure washer between detergent washes.
The White with Blue Fleck line is still staining things blue.
After an initial "We will make this right" comment, the factory representative has not answered any of our other requests for information on how to remedy this situation. Ten days have gone by and five messages are now unanswered (these were left by the reseller we purchased the line thru) The customer
service is unacceptably poor.