2000 IP380 Standing Rigging Replacement

I can get a complete set of standing rigging for my 23 year old 380 directly from Island Packet. I haven't shopped around the local rigging shops for cost comparisons but aside from cost is there any reason to look elsewhere? I'm thinking it would be made to original specifications getting it from IP but maybe I'm overlooking something (e.g., cost)? I plan on removing the mast and doing the actual replacement myself. Any suggestions or considerations welcome. Thanks.

John

Does IP fabricate the rigging themselves? Or do they use one of the vendors in Largo? If you have the original specs, and there have been no modifications by a PO, and you are certain of that, then it's probably a simple cost comparison: there's no real magic or proprietary component in swaged terminals on stainless wire (although there is certainly variation in quality, and that correlates to some degree with cost).

FWIW, the turnbuckles on my 349 are all marked "Sta-Lok".

First a caveat. I do not know if IP changed the maker of their standing rigging in the 'oh series" (320, 350, 370, 380, etc.).
For the prior series of boats standing rigging was made by Seco South. For my 1997 IP37 I spoke to Seco South and they had the specs for my model year and my hull number, so I simply chose to have them make up and send me new standing rigging and lifelines (I changed here and asked for bare metal lifelines - not the plastic coated versions).
As stated in other replies, there are a number of companies and rigging groups that could make up the lifelines or standing rigging. I simply chose to stay with Seco South because they had the specs and made the originals.

Mac

Seco would make sense. They are quite literally a stone's throw away from the factory (provided you can throw a rock about 416 feet). In fact, my first visit to the factory was impromptu after I went to Seco to get rigging for our OI28 in 2009.

(I came home with a brochure and told my wife, "One day, hopefully, we're going to buy one of these boats they're making today." It was really just wishful thinking, but sometimes, apparently, wishes do come true.)

Thanks all. I followed up with IP and Jessica told me that in addition to the original file/specs for my hull number, they have an in-house rigger. I'll be ordering the rigging from IP this spring and doing the mast-out install myself on the hard... finalizing and tuning in the water. I hope to photo document and post the process. I replaced the lifelines with bare SS and Sta-Lok fittings last year. An off shore life raft, EPIRB and PLB was ordered at the boat show last week and we hope to shove off from Bellingham and head down the west coast to Mexico end of summer... God willing.

Thanks for the clarification Hayden. I think we were typing at the same time

On this same topic, does anyone have photo(s) of how the shrouds are attached/pass through the end of the spreaders and what is used to cover the ends of the spreaders? On other boats, I have seen tape and "T" shaped rubber boots used.

When we replaced our standing rigging, we replaced the rubber boots too. I forget the brand and model. As I recall the shrouds were lightly held in place with SS wire, so they would stay in place if shrouds were slack on leeward side of the boat.
Good luck with the upgrades and your passage.

Rigrite.com has lots of replacement parts for the IP380. Might have the spreader tips. I used them for redoing my traveler blocks. Good supplier.