Splicing Braided Rope

Samson recommends splicing as the preferred rope termination method.

Splicing braided rope.

For hands on splicing demonstrations visit the marlow stand at any of our shows and exhibitions throughout the year or sign up to attend a marlow rope show held across the uk at sailing clubs once per month. For those wishing to splice their own ropes we have produced a comprehensive splicing guide and range of splicing tutorials scroll down to view detailing a range of splicing methods. All dock lines should have an eye splice in one end. Rope splicing in ropework is the forming of a semi permanent joint between two ropes or two parts of the same rope by partly untwisting and then interweaving their strands.

Splice terminations are used in all our ropes to determine new and unused tensile strengths. End splicing also called back splicing is used to clean up rope ends and keep them from fraying. Knots can significantly decrease a ropes strength while in most cases splicing maintains 100 of the specified rope strength. Premiumropes has uploaded various splicing tutorials such as eye splices soft shackles taper sheets or make a continuous furler line.

Make sure you have enough space to work and an anchoring point for your rope. 4 5 5 7 5 10 13 for use with ropes 1 8 hollow braid to 1 1 8 double braid or 3 strand rope 3 8 out of 5 stars 5 93 50 93. From mark b measure one long fid section down the body of the rope and make mark d measure approximately 5 full fid lengths from d and tie a slip knot in the rope. It lasts longer than whipping the ends and looks better than taped ends.

Create the splice by first unraveling the end of the rope then weaving the strands back into the rope end. From mark c count five consecutive left or right strands toward the end of the rope and mark the 5th left and right strand pair. Splicing modern braided ropes of super fibres is quite fun and easy to learn. Splices can be used to form a stopper at the end of a line to form a loop or an eye in a rope or for joining two ropes together.

A splice you put in yourself will be just as strong as one done by a professional rigger and splicing an eye into three strand rope is really very easy.