Help Identifying Yacht Cordage by Flecking Pattern?

[Kings Gambit]

Can anyone here tell me the manufacturer of this cordage? It's 3/8" or 10 mm polyester yacht braid (a.k.a. double braid). Might be European. It's a separated pair of blue flecks (tracers) interspersed by an adjoined pair of green flecks (tracers), etc.

 

[Joe]

It has the Samson XLS pattern.... one large three strand tracer with two smaller two strand tracers, however, the solid blue small tracers leave some doubt,

 

[PJL]

A question for Joe. I can see the three strand tracer, but can't locate the two strand ones. What and where should I be looking at/for? A couple of times I thought I might be seeing 2 strands, but after looking again they start appearing as 3s <sigh> With boats there is always something new to be learning <G>

 

[Kings Gambit]

With different perspective, resembles XLS pattern even if colors differ. This came off of my Furlex 200S drum; looking to replace it.

 

[Brian S]

With different perspective, resembles XLS pattern even if colors differ. This came off of my Furlex 200S drum; looking to replace it.

If it's for a furler, and you know it's double braid polyester (which it would be,) I should think just about any double braid polyester of the same diameter will work. Furler lines are not one of the more performance oriented control lines. I'd replace mine with whatever double braid I can get for reasonable cost, either New England Ropes Sta-set, or something from Samson bought from the chandlery here on this site, or Novabraid from www.sailcare.com, or your favorite www.cajunrope.com.

Halyards are a different story, and that's when I get stoopid spendy on high tech Dyneema/Vectran/Unobtanium cored lines.

My headsail on my little boat is hank on, and I rigged a downhaul line. I looked all over, and found the cheapest 3/16" polyester I could find. At the time, it was Samson LS Yacht Braid from this site. All it needed to do was pull the jib down to the foredeck, and resist UV sitting out all the time. Cheapo polyester is still gettin' the job done.

 

[Kings Gambit]

I've decided to order the line from Seldén. The spec'd line is 8 mm so the original installation, where ever that was, used 3/8", apparently. Explains why the line bunched up so often. I should have done this earlier but it's a pain to take the thing (Furling drum) apart and replace the line, etc.