Synthetic standing rigging sounds amazing. It’s lighter, stronger, and easier to install than steel rigging; but how do you attach these stays to your mast?
Steel rigging ends in a compression fitting or swage fittings which grips the end of the cable and attaches it to the mast. Synthetic stays can’t be squeezed into a swage fitting or pinched by compression fittings. So how do you attach your new synthetic stay to the spar?
Easy! Instead of a compression type fitting that grips the bitter end of the stay, all you need to do is create an eye splice into the end of the stay. The eye splice simply slips over the clevis pin and attaches to the stay to the spar!
While steel rigging ends in fancy mechanical fittings that need to be purchased, synthetic standing rigging ends in an eye splice which is easy to do yourself!
Synthetic rigging is very easy to make and very easy to install.
