Splicing Modern Ropes 2nd edition

Splicing Modern Ropes 2nd edition

A Practical Handbook

Polman, Jan-Willem

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

02/2025

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9781399417266

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Introduction

1. Synthetic fibres
Developments
Technical features
Breaking strain
Safe working load
Stretch
Creep
Synthetic fibres used for ropes
Polyester
Polyamide
Polypropylene
HMPE (Dyneema/Spectra)
LCP (Vectran)
PBO (Zylon)
Aramid (Kevlar/ Technora)

2. Construction of ropes
Twisted ropes
Single braid ropes
Double braid ropes
Braided sleeve with a core of twisted strands or parallel fibres
Additional adjustments

3. Which type of rope?
Sheets and halyards
Materials
Diameter and tensile strength
Length
Mooring lines
Diameter
Length
Ropes combined with camcleats
Maintenance and troubleshooting
Inspection
Friction and wear
Rope does not hold in camcleats
Twisted ropes
Cleaning ropes

4. Before you start
Splicing tools
Splicing technique and core materials
The size of the eye
How to remove a core from the sleeve
'Tapering' the ends of a rope
'Milking' the sleeve
Long bury splicing

5. Eye splice in laid ropes
Three-strand rope
Eight-strand rope

6. Eye splice in polyester ropes
Double braid rope
Rope with a laid core
Rope with parallel fibres in the core

7. Eye splice in Dyneema ropes
Single braid rope
Basic method
Method for empty Dyneema sleeves with a non-slip fibre
Lock splice
Double braid rope
Without using the sleeve
Using the sleeve
Double layer sleeve

8. Dyneema shackles
Soft shackles
Type 1
Type 2
Integral
Soft shackle knot

9. Weight savings and tapering
Tapering a doubled braided Dyneema rope
Joining two single braid ropes
Joining steel wire with double braid polyester
Joining a single braid Dyneema rope with double braid polyester

10. Thickening and strengthening
Splicing or sewing in an extra sleeve
Splicing in an extra sleeve
Sewing in an extra sleeve
Splicing in an extra core

11. Continuous loops
Double braid polyester
For equal thickness, spliced without the core
For strength, spliced with the core
Single braid Dyneema
Basic loop
Loop with sleeve
Double braid Dyneema

12. Whippings
Double stitched whippings for braid ropes
Common whipping
Whipping for a three-strand laid rope

13. Reeving of new halyards
Reeving eye ('Flemish eye')
Reeving loop with whipping

14. Splicing tools
Using a soft needle
How to make a soft needle

Appendices
1 Features of synthetic fibres: a comparison
2 Diameters and breaking strains of ropes
Calculating breaking strains for sheets and halyards
Guidelines for diameters of sheets and halyards
Guidelines for diameters of mooring lines
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