[quote=smfinley][quote=RLC]But for the time being I'm pretty happy with the boat I've got, and your suggestion to respect its age makes a lot of sense.
Maybe I need to go over the standing rigging one more time.
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If you don't know the last time your standing rigging was replaced, it is time to replace it. Especially if the boat has seen saltwater. My rigging looked very nice and then I had a trap cable break mid-wire under a perfectly good looking rubber coating, my wife didn't like that swim ;-)
If you are in enough wind to need/want to trap out, you should know the last time you replaced the standing rigging[/quote]
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