Hello Again,
It's been a busy couple of years of work on my boat, and I wanted to start a separate thread for this project.
After replacing the chainplates last year (six weeks of hard labor) by layering plywood on the bulkhead and bolting though everything (I used Schaefer straight chainplates), I was ready to replace all of the standing rigging.
I got interested in doing the Dyneema Dux and step by step ended up doing the whole thing, including changing the fittings on the mast to Cheeky Tangs. I saved a huge amount of weight which has translated in the THREE sailing days I've had this year (also did major work on the land base too this summer) into noticeably less heeling.
On the first sail, I found the jib sheets getting caught on the top toggle jaw (since no longer did the stay thread right into the turnbuckle), so I concocted some removable tunbuckle boot out of clear polycarbonate tubing and also shroud rollers out of a small diameter tubing. To make the rollers removable, I cut the tube in half and then reconstructed them around split donuts of 3/4" Starboard. They have eliminated that frustrating situation of the clew catching on the stay and then releasing and filling all at once causing each tack to have a lot of which grinding.
The turnbuckle boots have to be extra big due to the large diameter of the line terminators on the Dyneema stays.
The price all up for stays, terminators, mast tangs, tunbuckle boots and rollers is near $7000. If I had known at the start how much it would cost, I may have stuck with the stainless wire. It was one of those things that grew little by little and I said stuff like, I'm this far in, yes let me have those titanium tang bolts.
Now that it's done, I'm very pleased and future replacement (10 years, I suspect) will be at a much lower cost since all I'll need is the line itself and I did and will do all the splicing myself.
Jim
1987 P40, Lottie B, #123