Enclosed Thimbles

[SV Papillon]

I can only comment on what we had. Our line rode was our secoundary rode and was only set if we were in a particular place for a long time. We sat through a couple good blows where the line rode with the shovel splice was taking the brunt. Our secondary anchor was a aluminum fortress in one instance where it was loaded over night it took about an hour to free the anchor as it had set pretty hard, no visible signs of wear, broken yarns etc. I was reluctant to service the entire splice in an effort to let the yarns work themselves in giving a uniform load, just theory on my part, I have no idea if it was the case.

Jake