@chainik we're going to go see what's available to us tomorrow, I think about getting the basic stuff as well. Not sure what thickness yet, but something that's thick enough that we can hold onto.

i used 6mm which is thick enough to comfortably hold onto for the top one and 4mm which is strong enough but too thin to be comfortable for the bottom one. 8mm might be even better but that starts getting expensive. watch out for chafe passing through the stanchions!

@ccohanlon I'll share loads of pictures as we progress on this 😀 stay tuned. Do you have plans to do the same?

At some point in the next year, I plan to replace all the wire rigging and the guard rails with dyneema (inspired by @chainik). I'm increasingly taken with sailing Wrack as a 'softer', less tightly 'secured' boat. It feels more in keeping with her age — old wooden gaffers are rigged and sailed similarly, with everything looser. That said, I've also been inspired by the 'soft' rigging and blockless sheeting arrangements of tiny 6.50m mini-transat boats, of which there are a few here.

@mapper nice, that's lucky! Do you keep a page on your sailboat projects somewhere btw?

Not yet! I keep pushing back putting together lots of scattered notes, but it's on the list.

@mapper no problem 😀 let me know when you do!

For sure!