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• Good way to measure line diameter?
  • If you don't have a caliper handy...
    • Ditto
    • calipers
      • I actually have a couple...
  • Rob, this is your que!!
    • yeah but if I suggestd he smell the rope he would laugh at me.
  • Your existing halyards sound way oversized to me...
    • Thanks. I like oversized for the handling...
      • self tailors and clutches may be an issue...
        • There is also the opposite
    • Jon, Since you mentioned it
      • Going up solo
      • I'm not Jon, but...
      • I use a TopClimber, but
        • Not anymore.
      • I don't like heights, and am a real wimp when it comes to going aloft...
  • on most boats, lines are almost always oversized for the application...