roller furling continuous line replacement

[seanmcelligott]

I have the original furler in my 1988 which I believe is the Hood 915 from reading other posts.  The continuous furler line is the one line on the boat that I didn't replace after buying the boat last year and of course it is the one that snapped this weekend on my way home from an overnight cruise.  One of the reasons I didn;t replace it is that it seemed like it would probably be difficult and I couldn;t find any posts on the subject (my exclusive source of knowledge pretty much).  Anybody out there done it?

[Mike and Joanne Stimmler]

The hardest part is knowing how to do an end to end splice. You can just feed it through the drum and route it the same as the old one. It uses 7/16 line. I had someone do the splice for me since I don't know how to.

Mike

[Ted Pounds]

If you get the manual from Hood it shows you how to do the splice.  I did it and it wasn't too hard on brand-new line.  After making the splice you need to lock it in with some stitching.