Splice question

[benz]

Hi Jake,

I've done a tuck-bury on Spectra, but I didn't like it so well as just a plain long bury. The plain bury is just neater, since there's no ends sticking out all over. I lock-stitch per the manufacturer's directions, and I make sure to do it kind of loosely with stretchier stuff, so the splice has less chance of being distorted. All my latest shroud splices I've serviced over the lock-stitched portion with St Mary's hitching, and turk's heads aloft and alow. It might look over the top, but we'll see when I get the stick up.
NE Ropes likes the full-bury splice better than a tuck-bury, probably for the same purposes of neatness.
Ben

[SV Papillon]

Well 2 down 4 to go

number 1 was trial and error





number 2 went better, the eyes are all over sized for a larger radius solid thimble, I will most likely serve up over the splice for chafe protection as well.





I did a little expiermenting normally on the work splice if there is any taper it is only running the paired strands up staggered 6 or seven strands, also only about 8 tucks max. These are obviously many more tucks and I also brought the paired strands up to the normal stagger for the start of the taper then opened up the individual strand and seperated about half out, I cut off half of each ind strand in the pair then continued on up which gave a really nice taper to the splice.

Jake

[SV Papillon]

This is a normal tucked splices that we use at work.

The temp boomkin bobstay or whatever it is called



The eyes on the shrouds will also get seized around the thimbles

Jake

[SV Papillon]

Hello,

On my lower shrouds they want to lay in by the spreader fittings. Right now this area is part of the splice and loosely covered in stitched leather. Once the Brummell splices set in I would like a more robust chafe guard in this area. I was thinking of using black heat shrink, I have seen it used on other line services but have no expieriance using it for this myself. It would be about a foot and would be covering part of the buried section of the Brummell splice. Any thoughts?

Jake