Synthetic standing rigging

[nosara]

Has anyone used POWERLITE PBO synthetic standing rigging. If so how did it compare to Stainless Steel. Ive only dealt with Stainless but this looked interesting as an alternative.

[seasailor55]

There was an article in SAIL magazine a couple of months back, covering the rerigging of a Cape Dory with synthetic standing rigging. You might get some pointers there.

[rorik]

Samson Rope has synthetic rigging - known as Amsteel - other companies have other names, but virtually same product.
It is lower in weight and stronger than stainless, but it creeps/stretches at the molecular level, meaning that it will always need to be adjusted.
Great on a race boat, maybe not so much on a cruiser.
I talked to Dave at Samson when he was at the Seattle Boat Show in January.
Because of the constant stretch, I re-rigged with Hayn Hi-MOD fittings and regular SS wire.


http://www.samsonrope.com/site_files/Un ... _Creep.pdf

http://www.hayn.com/marine/tech/himod/install.html