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Originally Posted by waterman46
I tried Spectra for running backstays a few years ago. Great for low weight and low stretch but not good at all unless you plan to replace it very often. It wears poorly. After a couple years the surface of it became very fuzzy and the whole line actually wore through in one place where it came into contact with my plastic covered lifeline when not being used (hence, not under tension). I can't see anyone trusting any kind of thin rope for lifelines.
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I made some short strops from Marlow 5mm d12 sk99 and fitted them to the
mooring lines so they were in contact with the fairleads and one of the springs ran over a piece of stainless angle, left in place over a particularly nasty UK
winter with one storm after another so the
boat was getting thrown about a lot.
Amazing stuff, a tiny bit of chaff but considering the vicious
work they had to do hardly anything.
So my
lifelines are now d12.