Thanks to all who answered -- you helped a lot. I was about to order the sleeves, thimble and wire with a swaged ball, despite my still-unanswered appeal to my sailing club members for the loan of a swaging tool. (I'm two hours from the coast and nearly that far from Lake Champlain, where the nearest chandleries are.) But then I recalled that the Kenyon Spars page on the Rigright.com site offered a full range of spar accessories for the DS models and, sure enough, a completed vang wire pennant was available with swaged ball at one end and thimbled eye at the other. Just as well, I suppose, since all the swaged splices I've attempted with wire fencing had quite mixed results. Maybe it was the cheap vise grips