The Hi-Mod at the left, with a stud terminal, shows the components placed in line, unassembled. Note the little 'crown thrust ring' with notches for 12 strands of wire, and the slotted cone. This version has a threaded stud terminal. In the middle, the parts and strands are readied for the end fitting, in this case an eye, to be threaded home. At the right is a finished terminal (a fork), with the cone and crown thrust ring buried within the terminal body.

Go inland from Long Island Sound about 37 miles up the historic Connecticut River and you'll come to the town of Rocky Hill, home of Hayn Enterprises, LLC.

Hayn has stepped out with a set of new wire cable end fittings, or terminals. Designed by Petersen Stainless Rigging in England, the "Hi-Mod" compression fittings are being manufactured by both Petersen and Hayn, which recently purchased four more computer-controlled precision lathes (to go with the original one).

The Hi-Mod is said to have several improvements over the widely-known Sta-Lok and Norseman fittings. (Practical Sailor has tested to destruction these wire rope terminals, which are known to engineers as Fiege-type fittings. In a…