What could be better, get as a big box full of new lines and draw them into the mast? For me it is always the most pleasant work on board. And it was really slow time, that the old, currently collected ropes are replaced. It already has two Atlantic crossings under his belt, consists of simple, approve, woven polyester cloth. The new all come from the House Liros: Dynamic Plus with Dyneema core in twelve millimeter as a wholesale, Genoa- and cutter case, Hercules in twelve millimeters when Dirk, in ten millimeters as reefing lines and twelve millimeters thick Hercules Color Line as a genoa sheet (black), Kutterfockschon (yellow) and mainsheet (blue). The day, an dem das Cam Package, was a day like Christmas 🙂

From my good friend Egmont Friedl I can abgucken me on the last boat shows in Hamburg and Dusseldorf some tricks for using ropes. As we are both in 2009 his Westsail 32 “Gavdos” have sailed from the Chesapeake Bay to New York to the Azores, He has taught me in the middle of the pond, the manufacture of ropes, shackles made with Dyneema. With Splicing, which he himself produces, does it pretty well. On its Web site www.emf-marine.de finds it more Info – and on the side www.emf-sail.com Also a review of our trip.

Stupid, I have the Splicing, he has given me, are on board can. So I'll have to wait until the weekend, until I can splice the ends of lines.

Last summer I learned, that when drawing the new lines to connect the two ends of the old and new, not only with tape, but should also sew. What happens, if you do not do, see here: