[Public-list] Stay and fittings replacement

[John Kennedy]

George Dinwiddie wrote:

"It's harder to see a cracked swage fitting, and these can bring down a 
rig.  In fact, Bruce Ranking said it was the most likely point of failure."

Is this a reason to learn how to do a Liverpool eye splice in wire rope? I'm
thinking of playing around with this on my Fireball this winter. Not that a
Fireball really needs one, but it's nice to be working on something
"boat-ish" when it's -35 degrees and all white outside<grin>

John.


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