Most sailors will have heard of the new super-strong rope known collectively under the trade name Dyneema®, and sold under various names by rope makers, who weave the fibers into rope for marine use. The technical name is quite a mouthful: Ultra-high-molecular-weight-polyethylene and with an equally difficult to remember acronym, UHMWPE. I used it as a substitute for the wire on Britannia’s worn out lifelines, that needed replacing due to old age and serious chafe.

The article expains in detail the pro’s and con’s of using rope instead of wire and how to splice Dyneema to make attractive linelines and other things.

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