Synthetic Rigging

[Jack]

I would like to address many of the questions I see posted here about synthetic rigging and what we have come up with to work with the amazing material available to the commom sailor today.
My partener John Franta ( design engineer) and Myself Jack Molan (bearing Sea Capt.) have a new line of Deadeyes and fittings designed to work with Dynex Dux for standing rigging.
Dynex Dux is the UMHWMP line that has been heated and stretched in Iceland to give it exceptional stiffness and comes in 40% stronger than 316 1x19 wire of the same size. Yet it is 1/9th the weight of the same wire!
The creep and stretch that was the problem before Dux has been delt with by having such amazing strength and not loading the line beyond 20% of breaking loads.
For example. 1/4" 316 Stainless wire has #9,500 breaking strength and the 7mm Dux
has a be=reaking strength of #16,500. UX Dux is rated best of all syn. lines and we have it in the sun cooker on our boats in the Sea of Cortez. Alos we are coming in very close or less than the SS wire costs.
Please visit the website, we are updating as we are geting more of this out onto boats. I hope to vist Brion and the gang in Pt. Townsand soon as I can get it arranged, and get some of our fitting into there hands for trials and discussions.
We at Colligo am just finishing up our "coming out" show at the Annapolis boat show. We had one of the only "new" things at the show. Deadeyes? Who would have thunk huh? We had very funny reactions. The French round world guys love it, the traditional guys loved it, the class boat are stuck, on and on. For the DIY guy it was a real hit.
I would be glad to discuss this with anyone both here or by email.

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