Running backs -- continuous line or two part?

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Thanks Brion!

Originally Posted by Brion Toss

We leave the cover on all the way, usually, until it enters the single-braid tail down near the block. Then we strip the cover off, leaving an HM tail long enough to get onto the winch before the load comes on. The rest of the single braid is hollow. Single braid is fat, comfy, and easy to handle.

I lost you here. Do mean that at this point the HM line ends and is spliced to a different single-braid? Or that you remove the cover at that point and tuck into the HM single braid?

In other words: A continues HM covered line, that remains covered thru the winch load, at which point the cover is stripped off leaving the just inside/single-braid as the tail (to eliminate bulk)?

cheers