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"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote in message
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xcept when working a wire-to-rope splice.
Yep... cept the racing sailors probably don't know the diff between
a fid
and a marlinspike.

LLoyd
Ah, yes we do. But not many of them can make a nice-looking long
splice. d8-)

NObody does long splices any more, Ed.

Synthetics are way to slippery for that.
There are millions of long eye splices in nylon rope in New Jersey
boats who haven't heard that. In fact, I've never seen one give way.
For that matter, I've never seen a short eye splice, properly done,
give way.

As for straight long splices, I've done those a couple of times to
prove I could do it, but I'd rather buy a new piece of rope.

Uh Huh...
And so would every body else who values his hide or boat...
(except in New Jersey? VBG!)

The long version reduces strength by 10 to 15% if done perfectly
(and 20 to 50% if done sloppy~!)

I have some laid rope - anchor rodes and mooring lines.
The rest are all braid or cored.
That's what I figured. But all this talk about fids and marlinspikes, and
short versus long splices, let me to believe we were talking about laid
rope.

Yeah, pretty much me too.

But I CAN splice braid and some cored too.
But some of that stuff is a pure-D _____.

Sure, we have to do it with sailboat sheets, halyards, and other lines. I
hate it -- it seems vaguely perverse to splice cored rope -- but I've done
it.


Yeah. It does seem like a perversion of all that is right and holy.

But if you can do that, you can do about anything needed.

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Richard Lamb