Double braid with tightly woven cover

[Brion Toss]

Hello,
Double-braid can indeed get difficult to splice, after even a little time. There are ways to mitigate this, but the most important thing, at the moment, is to determine what the rope core is made of. If there are marker yarns in the cover you can use them to determine the make and model of the rope. If it has a high-modulus core, you have to do a core-to-core (Class II) splice. And you don't want to tie a knot in an HM halyard.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss

[seawolf]

Thanks gentlemen for your reply. The core is a loosely braided core like you find in sta-set.
I cut off a little from the end to find out what it was. What would be my source to find out the manufacturer by using the marker yarns? Not knowing proper terminology it may be difficult for me to explain to you, but in this particular 3/8" line the line is white and the marker yarns are blue and 1/2" long. spaced from bottom of last marker yarn to the top of the next by seven two strand yarns between them. How best to mitigate around the difficult cover?

[Clyde Jenkins]

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[seawolf]

Clyde,
It is very similar. The marker yarns on my sample are all blue, but the braid on the cover looks the same.

[allene]

Samson Rope has a PDF on how to do an eye splice on used double braid. I have tried it and it works. Unlike a normal splice where both the cover and core are buried making the eye part of the splice 2 times as strong as the line, they only use half the line so one side of the splice is half the line strength. But as it is only taking half the load, the basic theoretical strength of the splice should be line strength. But given that the alternative is probably a knot and that knot is going to cut the strength in half, you are most likely better off even if the used splice is not line strength. At least that is how I looked at it.