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Friendly rigger gave me an interesting tip. I'm replacing my furling line because is too big for the furling drum,which adds significant friction as it spools and bunches itself up. The tip is to remove the core from the line,which allows the line (now just the outer weave) to lay flat when spooling on the drum and could eliminate the bunching. According to the tip: "the outer shell is where most of the strength is,the core is just for bulk." Furling line isn't under much stress in any case.
Removing the core did decrease the bulk of the line significantly. I might downsize the line eventually.
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Ouch.. 🙂 I feel for you Jonathan
I just had to replace my furling line also. The old one purchased by the prior owner was to short. So I purchased 60 feet of 1/4 inch line thinking it would be plenty.. It was to short. I then purchased 120 feet of line and it worked. I used the extra 60ft I had purchased for a 6 part purchase on the engine end of the dingy davits 🙂 works great there. It hurt buying the line twice though. In testing it the 1/4 inch seems to be working well. We will see once we have it out sailing and some tension on it. I didn't want to go that small because of the hand grip-ability but the 5/16ths we had there was too big for the spool and we were also having problems with it piling up on the furling drum and seizing up.
At least I hadn't stripped the core 🙂 and could re-purpose my to short piece of line. 🙂
Scott
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This tip has actually worked for me right now. By removing the core, the line is now squeezed in the spool and furling works much better than previously. No need to replace the line.
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Nice. I will keep that in mind. I think the current size is going to work.
How hard was it removing the core from that long of a line?
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To remove the core (which I thought would be time consuming) took under 10 mins. First bunch up the braid so the core shows enough to grab it. Use pliers to keep a grip on the core. Then alternate: squeeze the braid up while keeping the core held tight, then with the end of the braid and core held tight, shake out a long portion of the rest of the line. This will work the core out, a half foot at a time. Do this to get a couple feet of core. At this point I saw it is actually easier than it sounds. So I tied the core to a cleat on the dock, then walked the entire line out the length of the dock so it was laying loose, shaking it out a bit. then I took hold of the braid (the opposite end from the one I was pulling the core from) and pulled gently and constantly. The entire braid slid off the entire length of the core. The only curious part was wondering if I was going to run out of dock lol, because it requires x2 the length of the line to walk the braid out 😀
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