Splice
Hi again,
I do a palm-and-needle whipping, two if I expect the lead one to see much chafe, then milk the rope firmly down the standing part, and make a series of "invisible" stitches, working away from the whipping. Very important not to make either rope bunch up. Most of the buried tail is not stitched to, so the covering rope can stretch out and compress. Sort of like the tail on a Whoopee sling, where you put the bearing at the head of the splice, and let the rope stretch out on the tail.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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