What I do is to install the cover on your core line where ever you want it with a short tail of cover hanging free toward the standing part of the line, as Brion said, to insert the cover into the core line as a termination of the covered section. Then just do the regular hi mod double briad splice, which is a core to core splice with the eye covered by ...cover. I normally upgrade the look of the splice by buring the tail of the cover from the eye inside the cover of the line creating a splice that looks very much like a double braid line splice. This does however weaken the spice by perhaps 8-10% (based on testing at Yale Cordage) but often the look is more important, and the safety factor high enough to tolerate this change.
Although it is common to not use thimbles for attaching shackles to halyards, or perhpas one could say it is uncommon to use a thimble here, there is a redution in halyard eye lifespan and ultimate strength from the tight radius the line must turn, much tighter than in any knot.
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Brian Duff
BVI Yacht Sales, Tortola
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