My viper traveler line broke on me. It has the two tails that splice together into one line that runs through the cleat. Is there a place I can get this from? I don't know how to splice line.

Red Gear Racing, or I can make one and send it to you.

Thanks! Message sent

Mine broke recently as well. My Taipan has the same set-up as your boat. I bought 10 feet of 5/16" Staset, cut two feet off and bent it on one end to make the two tails.

When I rig the boat, I bend the traveller line to the mainsheet and off I go. So far the setup has worked out well.

Bend?

That's fancy yachtie talk for...

Tie one On!

As in,

Go get Bent!

Here you go, sing along: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN-Lka3nqm0

Quick and easy. Pull about 8 inches of core out of double brand. Re run the core back thru the the cover and put a few stiches in. Tie the core to one side the cover to the other.

That's pretty much what I sent him. Difference being I put the cover through the core, and the core through the cover, then there's no need to throw any stitches in. It locks down pretty hard.



What I want to try doing is taking a short piece of dyneema, splicing an eye on each end onto the eye straps on the rear beam, then splicing an eye on the core of the actual sheet with the split tail going through that eye, then just pull the eye splice back into the cover a bit. There needs to be something there to lock the cover to the core on the sheet though, just stitching it would probably work fine. Doing that way should make it self centering, and should run pretty cleanly. Once in a while I get something that hangs up and I have to pump the traveller sheet to get it centered.

I guess it's time for me to learn to splice and stitch and pull cores and whatnot!

I used to think it was black magic voodoo, only for those with a few ocean crossings, a couple of Olympic medals, and maybe an America's Cup under your belt.

Its really simple, doesn't take much for tooling, and is a really handy skill to have.