Three spliced instead of one?
Yes, absolutely! The result is stronger, more chafe resistant, and will not degrade the nylon as a thimble WILL do when under heavy surge and strain. When that happens you must resplice the eye on the thimble. The nylon literally fuses on the inside of the thimble (not visible to inspection) when that happens. This is because the nylon WILL stretch around the thimble and abraid creating heat.
With the two eyes joined by the nylon and polyester, there is a completely balanced tension in each of the four elements formed by the join (assuming that you followed the splicing directions correctly). Stretch due to the nylon characteristics is absorbed by the polyester in compression and almost no relative movement occurs to abraid the nylon, hence a longer lived tackle.
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