Hi all,

I am with John. My father and now I, have done our own and many other peoples stay's hand swaged for 20 odd years. Apart from one incident when completly fitting out and rigging a Contender over night, where the wrong size swages where used, failures have been negligible <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />.

Also corrosion is minimal as long as you wash down after salt water sailing, generaly the wire shows signs of internal rust before swages have any problems.

Hi Gary
I had to read this 2x's. I thought for a second you were trying to tell us something! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Last weekend a guy was milling about the boat park, it ended up he worked for the Australian defense and was over here purchasing vehicles. He sails a NACRA 500 from Melbourne (same SC as Greg). He wasn't doing much sailing at the moment due to it being Winter and cold=12deg C. It's Summer here and the weather aint much warmer 17deg C today <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Hi Mark,

looks like sailors at work <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Just can't help them selves.

Last week I had a PM from Paul who was over here in Canberra for work <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> and had a look at "Altered" at the club in Canberra. I was telling him it was too cold to sail in Canberra also, but he reckoned it looked OK. All a matter of what you are use to I guess <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />.

We do it tough in OZ <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

You guys are going soft!

snow down to 300m and there is still racing going on!!! (cats, dinghies and keel boats)

tough stuff down here in southern OZ.