I do not have the specs of the Vectran we used but I can get them if you need. I would like to try different composite rigging but it needs to be in a linear fashion instead of a woven fashion. It also needs to have some sort of UV/chaffing cover to protect from harness lines and other lines from rubbing the composite material.

We put the Vectran forstay and shrouds on before Miami Key Largo last year and we did not have a chance to run them in and get out the initial Creep. The rig was so sloppy that the boat was really scarry to sail in the high winds that year. The entire rig would move around. We tightened up the rig before the Key Largo-Key West and it was still moving around ALOT. We kept tightening it up by removing harware to get more preload but no mater what we did the rig still moved around a bit.

This year we went back to stainless steel and I trust the rig a lot more. I was never afraid of the Vectran breaking (it had twice the breaking point of the stainless) but the vectran made the rig more unpredictable, especially when surfing waves and sailing downwind. That year both the MKL and Hogsbreath were both downwind.