DIY Dyneema Lifelines

This video is about our experience installing Dyneema lifelines on our sailing catamaran ourselves. Below is a list of supplies we used:

[jjohnbrown]

Love the way you redid your lifelines. The more I learn about your boat, the more I want one like yours. Great job! I'm impressed with what you have done. Most of all, what you have taught me will help me immensely with my boat.

[glennrobbins]

Nice to see I am not the only one with band-aids all over my hands when working on the boat. Great Job

[tommygunz]

Your boat is really coming along....You guys did alot of work on love Sierra when she does those background is going to miss having a home dog Marlin to chill wit....Good job

[flok]

Nice job Billy, Sierra and Jetty!! Much love from Brazil!

[nocoolname]

it's amazing how you guys make everything look so easy and get it done in such an organized manner. im going to suggest carl on his floating outhouse watch this video for some tips. keep up the good WORK.

[clackerman]

You guys really work well together. It's fun to watch you guys get so much done together.
You guys are a cut and above ALL the other YouTuber sailors. It's always like a fun little vacation, as I watch another one of your videos. The beauty and the fun in your videos help me survive the Winters. Thanks.
Being late to your Channel is cool, because you have so many cool videos I haven't seen. Good job to you both. Plus, you're both such great examples of how healthy eating and rigorous exercise makes everything
better living. Just Great

[bobvjr]

Nice job Billy and Sierra!! Have a safe trip!!

[mikeschauerman]

Happy to see you mastered the fids, nice work Captian. Say hello to the Admiral and Jetty. Love the BANDAIDS😅

[edwardmorton]

Nice Work! Please keep us (your faithful subscribers) posted on the long-term success or failure of those carbon fiber stansions. I would expect that the Dyneema lines themselves will outlive you, Sierra, and Jetty by more than several decades.

[callmepokey]

have you ever though of putting shrink tube on line before feeding it so its kind of like a shoelace end to make it easier without fraying?

[belledetector]

How are your carbon stansions holding up now 2 years later? And how did your dynema lines age? Any stretch, chafe etc?

[mikeoconner]

Dang! I was hoping to see how the lower line matched up to Jetty.

[barretharms]

Half hitch over the top of the fit bring your line back through the half hitches with the fit and it will never come loose without a spike. However you do have to left right you're half hitches in order to make a straight line or teardrop 1/2 hitch binding.

[MrRourk]

Colligo Fittings ain't cheap! Very nice boat upgrade!

[GI-AUS]

Great video, this will make dyneema lifelines a lot easier to do when I get round to them! I think you voiced & showed your own solution as to how to tie the lashing better: lash the first turns around the post, use the welded eye for the last pass only so the turns won't bind up on each other. The half hitches will hold them all together.

[davidayres]

you guys are great boat people.keep that puppy yourselves. Great job !

[JoseRivera-ltcc]

Suggest you start using tripod when talking to camera. The back & forth camera rotation makes watching difficult. I’ve been longtime subscriber and want to continue enjoying your adventures.

[scottpetrone]

You did in nautical terms what is called whipping a rope. It has excellent strength and will never become undone.

By the way excellent video I love these it takes me back to when I was younger as a kid with my first boat.

Your boat seems like a different vessel now all the improvements that you've made. Congratulations Ciara and Bill! Excellent work very good video to watch.

Fair Winds and following NJ

[marksardar]

Just what I needed. A bit of motion sickness watching the video.

[joeblow]

Great video. Thanks! Two questions, please... 1) can you melt the ends of dyneema to keep it from fraying? 2) assuming you were going to use ss wire and do your nicrropressing, is using dyneema still cheaper?