Sand, galvanised forestays and sail hanks.

[Vtlli]

Thank you, gentlemen, for your input.
Now this matter seems for me more clear. Since my post here I searched lots of forums about this subject. And nobody has same problem. Unless few boats which came to Caribbean from the North (UK, Canada, Ireland) with poor preparations (as owners stated themselves).
At present I finishing splicing for all stays and have some leftovers. So I decided to make splice on the one end of leftover and another live clear. In emergency/ faulty case I'll be able to make another second splice at desired length and will have new stay.
Is there alternative to bronze hanks which are more kind to the wire?
(from my own experience with bronze: Before starting splicing works I made spike out of phosphor bronze thinking this metal is soft enough and will be very kind to the wire. After inserting few times into the wire spike was covered with deep scratches and those scratches damaged wire. So I sanded/polished bronze and left this spike to synthetic ropes and make another few spikes out of stainless which have no single scratch after whole job). Now I'm not so sure about bronze hanks from this point.

Vitaliy