Splicing & Sailmaking
Loop HMPE
This HMPE loop replaces all steel shackles and snap-shackles. With a significant weight saving, it is gentle with the hardware and rig parts (mast, boom, pole, deck) while maintaining the block in perfect work position.
Advantages :
Quiet, excellent resistance to uv and abrasion, exceptional ratio weight / resistance.
Use :
Alternative to shackles to connect lines to travellers, toe-rails, booms and spars (bow sprits, poles...), connections of lines to backstays, running backstays, purchases...
Construction :
100% HMPE (High Modulus Polyethylene) 32 plait braid.