Spreaders when Switching to HM Rigging

[benz]

When I built my synthetic-rigged cutter, I used Delrin for the spreader ends. You can take a delrin sheave, saw it into four pie-pieces, them modify the pointy end to fit the spreader with a little imagination. I bored two small holes in the spreader end and lashed the spreader to the shroud with some HM line. It's worked perfectly for 5 years and 12,000 sea miles, and though I have spare spreader ends, I haven't had to use them--the first set is still good. I expect it won't be too long before people think of wire shrouds the way they did of Hemp shrouds 80 years ago--like a dinosaur well-laid to rest.
BTW, the Colligo fittings are top-notch.
Ben