Bloody Marlow D2 splice

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I'm at wits end trying to put an eye splice in some 8 mm (about 5/16") marlow D2. I've been able to splice everything else I've tried so far but this stuff defies me.

It's an absolute pain extracting the core through the ever so tight cover - and the cover doesn't seem to be able to stretch enough to accept the spliced core no matter what I do. I've tried all the various tricks from Brion / Margie's book to no avail.

Does anyone have any experience with this stuff and hopefully a hint or two?

It's urethane / UV coated spectra core inside a very dense tight cover.

I need to get these splices made in the next day or two in preparation for THE race of the year.

They're for asymmetric spinnaker sheets. If all else fails I'll strip some cover and put a brummel in the stripped core but the foredeck crew would prefer a splice with cover on as they stuggle to grip fully stripped sheets when dropping the sail.

HELP!!!!!