These links bring you to a nice group of folks discussing synthetics rigging. It has my personal favorite photo...:-) of me holding up my entire rigging that weighs in a 15 lbs. I very scientifically weighed my original rig while on a bathroom scale and it came in like 47lbs. Pretty big weight savings. I just spoke with a guy who spent big bucks to install a new tapered mast to save some weight aloft.....$12k and change, yikes.
Hubba Bubba!
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...g-18184-4.html
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...g-10078-2.html