Soft Halyard or Line Shackle

[Anton B]

I was taking care to make long tapered splices, and got up to line strength on at least one break, and 90% on a lot of them. I was getting 75% when I wasn't taking much care of the tapers.

I bought that scale for $25, how could it be inaccurate? ;-)

I have a new idea; using something like a whoopee sling to make a cascading adjustable shroud with those new fangled friction rings, which would allow the whoppe sling splice part of it to only carry half the load, and use a bungee cord in the same way as the Constrictor jam cleat.

I will mock one up with my tiny line ('cause I'm too cheap to use big line) and break a couple of them and see what happens there.

If you are interested, I could try to do another test of the luggage tag with extra diamond knots using a stronger shackle to see what it takes to break it.

Anton

PS, please link to the new thread...