Hi Jon,

I replaced my downhaul line using some very thin whipping twine. Bought 9m of new rope (for the downhaul) and then used a needle and sewed the new rope to the end of the old one butting the ends up against one another.

I sewed back and forth between the two ropes about 10 times both straight across and at angles until I was sure that the two weren't going to come apart and that the ends wouldn't come out and snag on the internal blocks and then just pulled it through the mast from the other side and cut the end off.

Worked a treat!