Hi - I read that Marine How-To article and then came across this which was not encouraging: https://forums.sailboatowners.com/threads/mooring-pendant-debacle.185630/ I plan to use a double, but not link them together. Dave
Dr. David Knecht Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of Connecticut 91 N. Eagleville Rd. U-3125 Storrs, CT 06269-3125 860-486-2200 > On Apr 3, 2020, at 8:04 PM, <djhaug...@juno.com> <djhaug...@juno.com> wrote: > > > <https://marinehowto.com/mooring-pendants-thoughts-musings/>https://marinehowto.com/mooring-pendants-thoughts-musings/ > <https://marinehowto.com/mooring-pendants-thoughts-musings/> > From: David Knecht via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2020, 3:20 PM > To: CnC discussion list CnC > Cc: David Knecht > Subject: Stus-List Mooring pendants > > I am planning to get a new pendant for my mooring float and have been reading > up on the topic. I am surprised by the variety of solutions I am seeing and > few are complete. My plan was to put a nylon pendant and luggage hitch on a > NE Ropes cyclone dyneema segment on one arm of the double. The cyclone is 5’ > or 8’ long. My old pendant is 12’ long. So I am thinking a 5’ cyclone and > 7-8 foot nylon/poly 3/4” for one side. What I am more unsure of is what to > do with the other arm of the pendant. I like the idea of a double as it > gives redundancy in the event of a failure at that part of the chain of > connections. Presumable, I would do that in all nylon/poly. But should it > be the same length or longer so it only comes into play in the event of a > primary failure. Alternatives I see are making it the same length or making > it shorter so that the dynema arm is the emergency backup. I thought the > science of this would be all worked out by now but it seems not. The results > of the cyclone/dyneema study in the Boston area seems to be pretty strong > that it does not fail due to chafe which was the major source of failures in > that area. So perhaps the second pendant is overkill? Dave > > > S/V Aries > 1990 C&C 34+ > New London, CT > > > >
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