Double braid splicing

[Greene]

Raining again in Wisconsin, so I found an indoors sailing project.  I just received the new line for my halyards and I wanted to splice a loop in each one.  Since I've never spliced double braid I figured this could be interesting.  I tried using the written instructions that came with my Samson fid and proceeded to make something that resembled a frayed radiator belt.  Not too impressive to say the least.  Well I am not easily discouraged, so I went online and followed a video on this splicing mystery.  This time my effort was quite a bit better.  I'd say it looked like someone was attempting to splice a line after a few too many Drambuies.  Ok, I'm stubborn enough not to admit defeat.  I found another YouTube video "Splicing Double Braid" by NewEnglandRopes which looked promising.  I carefully followed the instructions and actually ended up with two new halyards with nice loops.



Whew!  I may be getting older and certainly not any brighter, but darn if this old dog isn't stubborn.

Mike

[crazycarl]

Very nice Mike!

I've tried this myself with very unsatisfactory results.  But then, I have trouble tying my shoes laces...


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                 Carl 

[Salty19]

Nice work!  Our timing is hilarious...I'm still in the frayed radiator belt stage of the learning curve. Burying the core in the cover is where's I'm stuck.  Will have to check out that vid.
Not being as strong willed as you, I gave up for a few days and switched to another project. I'm finishing up a new mainsail cover today. With the new sail and full battens, the original one was too small, breaking the fastening clips and scrunching the life out of the sail.

[capt_nemo]

Nicely done!

Too much trouble for me. I either use three strand line and traditional splicing methods or I work a tight seizing around the two braided lines at the bottom of the loop.

capt_nemo