Scotty wrote:
Katy, you should know better than to side with the NG dunce.
How does sewing and/or taping add any significant width
(dia.) ?

Scotty


"katy" wrote in message
...

Actually, as much as CM is a royal dunce, the messenfer

line is better

in some respects becasue then you're not passing an

increased width of

line through the roller at the top. On some boats, any

increase in

width will cause a jam up there and then you'll end up

going up the mast

anyway...also, if you have internal halyards like ours,

the whole

operation goes smotther using a messenger line..we just

use that cheap

stuff from WallyWorld...more cord than line, but it's

strong enough not

to break under tension and slides over things ...



Becasue it does...becasue we tried it...you have to use enough tape and
stitch enough to make sure the lines don't come aprt, no? Well....that
much tape and stitching makes the halyard too fat to go through the slot
for inmast halyards...been there, done that..messenger line is the way
to go...