My fellow newsgroup-members,

I'm in the process of making a series drogue.I am using multiplait line
here, for obvious reasons.
I tried googling for some splicing-descriptons but can't find any that
are any good.
Since I'm asking... I'm looking for an end-splice, eye-splice and
anchorchain-splice.
Who helps? I like 'm with a lot of pictures... ;-)

Fair winds, Len.

Try - http://www.ropeinc.com/rope-splicing.html

Of course you'll need the proper fids.

Cap'n Ric

Never mind,
http://www.yalecordage.com/html/pdf/...eye_splice.pdf
http://www.yalecordage.com/html/pdf/...ain_splice.pdf
Fair winds,
Len.

Len,

Len wrote:
Never mind,
http://www.yalecordage.com/html/pdf/...eye_splice.pdf
http://www.yalecordage.com/html/pdf/...ain_splice.pdf
Fair winds,
Len.

Are you using yale, or MaxiBraid (NER)?

I have all three of the splice documents (and you can also see it done
on both eye and chain, in my gallery under refit - the thing that
looks, in the thumbnail, like one of the aliens in the movie Alien) for
MaxiBraid if you need them.

L8R

Skip and Lydia, floating

Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig KI4MPC
See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery!
Follow us at http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog and/or
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog

"And then again, when you sit at the helm of your little ship on a
clear
night, and gaze at the countless stars overhead, and realize that you
are
quite alone on a great, wide sea, it is apt to occur to you that in the
general scheme of things you are merely an insignificant speck on the
surface of the ocean; and are not nearly so important or as
self-sufficient
as you thought you were. Which is an exceedingly wholesome thought,
and one
that may effect a permanent change in your deportment that will be
greatly
appreciated by your friends."- James S. Pitkin

Len wrote:
My fellow newsgroup-members,

I'm in the process of making a series drogue.I am using multiplait line
here, for obvious reasons.
I tried googling for some splicing-descriptons but can't find any that
are any good.
Since I'm asking... I'm looking for an end-splice, eye-splice and
anchorchain-splice.
Who helps? I like 'm with a lot of pictures... ;-)

Fair winds, Len.


Dont be a fool................ ask the people who manufactured the suff
youre using.
The fid reference by another poster is mostlikly thinking nylon double
braid. You have multiplait. there is a big diffrence.
Bob

Len wrote:
My fellow newsgroup-members,

I'm in the process of making a series drogue.I am using multiplait line
here, for obvious reasons.

Lets try this again. I believe most published advice recomends nylon
double braid with no mention of multiplait for series drogue
construction. I assume we are not talking about the same cordage
construction, that is unless where you live the words "double braid"
and "multiplait" are used interchangably? I use the two words to mean
two very diffrent cordage construction types as do Sampson and England.


I tried googling for some splicing-descriptons but can't find any that
are any good.

When you say "good" do you mean easy to understand or the splice does
not reduce SWL significantly: 90%?

Since I'm asking... I'm looking for an end-splice, eye-splice and
anchorchain-splice.

Anchorchain splice............................. cordage manufactures,
Drogue Data Base, SeaAnchors and Drouge (Hinze) do not recomend an
eysplice directly to chain. Yas gotta uz a thimbol and shakel. Ya just
cant bend it to a link un hopes it to hold when yas needs it most. And
it aint the uns uzd for wirerope. gots ta uze the uns fur line not
rope.

And for thoes more inclined to cricize my use of "foolish", here are
lots of typos and conventin errors to find fault too. Hvae fun boys.

Oh, so what brings yall over here? Nobody paying enough attention to
your comments at alt.sailing asa?

In all honesty Len. by your questions and word use I advise strongly
that you read the two texts I listed above. Both are very helpful for
series drouge design and use.

I also ass-u-me that you used the load formula to calculate the
strength of the attachment points for the drogue and harnes legs?

Just a couple thoughts to
consider.......................................... .....

Bob


Who helps? I like 'm with a lot of pictures... ;-)

Fair winds, Len.