First time ever today I broke a harness line. Just sailing along and snap, the stainless steel rectangle of my 28" Gaastra lines just exploded. I thought "stainless steel" was supposed to be that. Doesnt bloody corrode in salt water
Checked the other bits and they are all brown with rust.
Broken masts, battens, and sails you deal with but something that pissy seems a little OTT.
Anyone else had the same problem??
Bought my wife a bike a few xmases ago, after a few months spoke began to break, you guessed it rusty stainless. Bloke in the bike shop said there was a very bad batch of chinese stainless, had small chunks of raw steel in it, these rusted and bingo, another busted spoke. I ended up replacing the whole lot.
304 is the common grade of stainless that will corrode, 316 is marine grade.
In my experience all china steel even in mild steel grades is crap.
I have broken 4 harness hooks this season...2 x dakine, 2 x Pryde.
I think it is fair to say that quality has dropped this year...
yeah Kimba's right you never know what grade they use nowadays..i wish if sails were pricey might as well make them real sturdy
check your stainless bits with a magnet. you might be suprised to find how little nickel and chrome they are using
Ever notice how knives rust in the dishwasher when forks and spoons don't?
They use a different grade of SS for knives more suited to cutting implements. There are always trade-offs and the SS with the best corrosion resistance may not have the correct mechanical properties to suit particular applications, although if it corrodes it doesn't matter how strong it WAS!
unfortunately no-one is, so manufacturers have to find the cheapest option.
Broke a Prolimit near the hook after 13 months - the type that have a small catch and that goes into the main body of the hook - steel sort of bent and then broke thru with a mighty big crash - scares the crappers out of ya when one minute your loaded up and blasting along full speed - next thing your flying across the water gear everywhere going WTF just happened.
The new Dakine has a little rust mark near the hook as well - can you put fish oil based primer on them to protect them?
maybe it was the lakes water larko, its that brown and smelly at the moment its amazing the boards haven melted 
