When we had the issue of the main sail halyard snapping back in July we replaced all the sail halyards and some of the most used lines. Since then we’ve been looking at the old lines and thinking ‘we ought to replace these too’.
With five chandleries all carrying a stock of lines in Bas du Fort we were sure we’d find everything we needed...and we did.
We bought 40m x 14mm for two genoa sheets, 22m of 12mm for the main sheet, 20m x 10mm low stretch high performance rope for the two genoa car travellers and 11.5m x 10mm of the same for the main sheet car traveller. For the rest of the lines we could have regular standard 10mm and in different colours; two x 16m in light blue for the whisker pole lifts, 10.5m of green for the mizzen out haul, 12m of blue black marl for the mizzen control sheet and 16.5m of red black marl for the passerelle line.
In
all we replaced164m of old lines with new. What happened to the line
we discarded? the dock master took it for the January carnival. He
explained that there’s a tradition on the island of making carnival
whips and by giving our old lines and it stops them stealing ropes.
out with the old 
genoa sheets & grey non stretch
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| old on left, new on right |
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