Most appropriate synthetic for halyard / staysail luff

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SV,

Unless you are intending to race the boat most of the high tech low stretch lines are really overkill for use as halyards for you. I would recomend looking at Stay-Set or Stay-Set X. Both are relatively high strength and are only a generation or two older than the top of the line lines. But at a substantial price savings.

You could of course go to the really high tech stuff, in which case I would buy cored lines and pull the covers down about 1/3 of the way. This allows you to have a full thickness line over the working portion, only the high strength in the mast, and a low strength tail that just runs through shivs when there is no load. However I don't see an advantage to this for what I understand your application to be.


As for replacing the internal wire luff on a stay-sail. I have no experience with doing this except for with wire, however I would imagin that Dux would work fine.