Well in proper lazy cruiser form I put off this job until a ateering cable failed, but now I'm doing it.
The chain inside the pedestal has a shackle "built in" to the last link, so I'm going to do an eye splice with a SS thimble on that end pretty similar to the old swaged eye.
The quadrant end is the adjustment end. I've got ring bolts, that go through the quadrant, and they have pretty limited adjustment range. I'm trying to decide how to terminate the vectran to the eyes:
- Luggage tag hitch a spliced eye. This requires that I get the length "just about right"
- Spliced eye with a thimble a bit short and a lashing for coarse adjustment and the bolt for fine adjustment and centering
- Leave a rope tail and tie a knot. (What knot? Perhaps an anchor bend or a scaffold hitch?) Will that hold well in 12-plait vectran?
Amy recommendations?