Webbing is nice for jacklines because it doesn’t roll under the feet. But it degrades in the sun and the strength goes to shit. Somewhere I read a good idea–thread line down through the center of the tubular webbing and have the advantages of both. So that’s what we did. I bought blue 1″ tubular webbing and 1/4″ amsteel, and jonny did the deed of threading the amsteel through the 40ft lengths of webbing. We made our own tethers by threading shockcord through tubular webbing; one end gets a trigger release snap-shackle (that will be the pfd side) and the other end, a steel biner. These things retail for $100 or so; ours were much cheaper.
In the cockpit, we installed two padeyes behind the starboard seat to run a jackline, so that you can clip in before leaving the companionway, and stay comfortably clipped in while hanging out in the cockpit.
Our policy: must be clipped in whenever it’s dark.
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