R E KWent to pick up our new backstay yesterday. Now the cable is swaged on both ends.
New standing rigging is... not cheap. The price tag was a bit high, but after doing some calculations it seemed like it wouldn't have been that much cheaper with mechanical swages, either...
Dev & I took the bus back from the shop with the new(and old) cable. Got a lot of funny looks and questions from other riders, "What is *that* for?"
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Kira 🌱@tty The backstay replacement was due to a big cut we found in one of the strands, it was compromised.
For the headstay, its very old, never been replaced, and the stay is hidden under a roller furler sleeve so we never get to see it(removing the sleeve is a bit involved). Given how much we've sailed that boat and that we dont know the true age of that stay, it's just safer to replace it.
For the headstay, its very old, never been replaced, and the stay is hidden under a roller furler sleeve so we never get to see it(removing the sleeve is a bit involved). Given how much we've sailed that boat and that we dont know the true age of that stay, it's just safer to replace it.
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