SkitchNYC wrote:

Well, now you're not making any sense at all. If you are daysailing
dinghies,

I'm making perfect sense. My experience thus far has been in dinghies, but
the boat concerned is an 18' cruiser.


you won't need lifelines. If you are talking about storm
jibs and attaching a harness, and if you ever experience conditions
where you actually deploy such things, you'l be glad you have
lifelines. They are not supposed to be a wall to keep you on deck,
but they are something nice to grab if you are sliding over board

So are the shrouds. A harness loop at the base of the mast can be reached
from the companionway.


... in the dark on a bad night.

No lights. No night sailing. Not for quite some time, at any rate. If
lifelines are a very good thing at night, then I'll look into them when such
activities are on the cards.


If they are not falling apart, God knows
why you would want to remove them.

There are no spreader plates under them and I don't like the present
mounting - too weak and too close to the hull. Making up plates involves
more metalwork than I'm willing to undertake at present.


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