Snthetic rigging
Dear John,
I just HAVE to ask.
What do you mean by, (and who advised you ) " With synthetic riggings there is no good options for installing them on the shrouds" ?
If I may be so bold, this sounds like some of the "Remember, Dyneema hates compression" type of muddled thinking that showed up on here in a previous thread.
If you just dont want to mount anything on the shrouds, fair enough, but there is nothing concerning synthetic rigging that should put you off mountinmg your pin rail or nav lights or mop and deck scrubber in your shrouds.
You just have to apply the correct treatment, appropriate to the load and duty you are going to expect of the component you are fastening to.
Short lengths of stout serving, correctly applied, may give a good surface for the timber to grip, just like it does for ratlines.
PROPERLY sized Dyneema tension members have such a factor of safety that any perceived lessening of strength is, as I was told by Brion Toss in the aforementioned thread, "A Non Issue"
Regards,
Joe Henderson.
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