Top end connectors

[benz]

Hi,
Check out Colligo's handy mast tang fittings--I forget what he calls them, but essentially a little aluminum shoulder you bolt to the mast, and put a spliced eye of Dux right over it. Good for boats that still use mast track and therefore can't loop shrouds right 'round the mast.
Red loctite is supposed to be impregnable to all but the torch. I have not tested those claims.