I have a hard time believing that rod rigging fails less than wire.
Consider, if a crack in a wire happens, it affects only that wire and
nothing comes down. ANY crack in rod rigging will quickly propogate
through the entire rod. Considering this, something is wrong with the
comparison.

It fails immediately ...without warning ...and usually with catastrophic
results

CM.

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I have a hard time believing that rod rigging fails less than wire.
Consider, if a crack in a wire happens, it affects only that wire and
nothing comes down. ANY crack in rod rigging will quickly propogate
through the entire rod. Considering this, something is wrong with the
comparison.

have a hard time believing that rod rigging fails less than wire.


As Gary pointed out, rigging failure is rare compared to a fitting or
chainplate cracking. That said, rod rigging is stronger and virtually
impossible to break, where wire does and has parted under sail. I'll
take the rod rigging every time thank you, especially on a boat in the
fine condition that mine is in. I also had rod on the C&C 32 and it was
bullet proof...really.

RB
35s5
NY