Which leads us to...another chaffed line

and, because the dinghy was blowing in the breeze (so to speak) our brand new davit line also chaffed, so we had to purchase a new line for one side. The other side was fine. One would think that you could just cut the end off and redo the splice but it is almost impossible to do so on ‘old’ line. Here, the good news is that the lines held and the dinghy was not lost.