The wire rope that I'm using is a piece left over from my lifelines. You can
get it at the marine hardware store and they will put the nicopress sleeve
on each eye for you.. You should have the snape hook put on the eye before
it is swagged (eliminating a needless shackle). Bring your pocket knife
along since you will have to strip the vinyl back for the eye.

Make the inboard end eye pretty large because you want to be able to drop it
over a cleat on the dock or deck when you handling the outboard..

BTW. I have used this inboard end to lock my dingy to the dock, however that
requires an addtional lock. I suppose you could work out a system to pass
the lanyard through some fitting on the dock and back to the thumb screw
lock.

I don't worry about corrosion of the vinyl cover stainless, anymore than I
do for my lifelines.

Steve
s/v Good Intentions