The new synthetic stays from Fabrica are on Paikea, and this post covers how we fitted synthetic stays on a rotating rig and why each connection is set up the way it is. Shayne talks through the top and bottom attachments, the dog bone he machined, why some stays have turnbuckles and others don’t, and
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Inside the Fabrica Workshop: How Synthetic Rigging Is Actually Made In the last post we walked through why Paikea’s stays needed replacing, and why we landed on continuous filament, unidirectional Dyneema DM20 rather than going like-for-like with wire. That post ended with a promise: we’d head to the Fabrica factory to see how these stays
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Synthetic Headstay Furling Explained: Why It’s Different From a Standard Furler In the last post we covered why we’re replacing all of Paikea’s stays, and why the headstay in particular has to go too. If you haven’t read that one yet, it’s worth doing first — it lays out the reasoning behind the whole project:
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Replacing Wire Sidestays with Synthetic We noticed it during a routine look: one of the outer strands on Paikea’s sidestay had popped. A single broken wire in a 1×19 stay doesn’t sound like much, but it’s the kind of thing that changes your whole season. This is Part 1 of a series on how we
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