![]() ![]() Please don't be tempted to use this rope and then use knots to terminate it. Even the very fashionable and expensive Spectra softies will be within reach. A simple eye splice will let you replace the equivalent of a Nicopressed eye, but with just a bit more related skill you can make a host of other cordage tools. This lock, called a Brummel, holds the splice together under low load, until the larger loads come on to provide strength via compression on the bury. Since the material is very slippery and even low percentage loads are quite high, we do a little locking arrangement before we do the bury. This constriction combined with friction makes for a near 100% efficient splice. The splice works on the same principle as the Chinese handcuff trick, the tighter the rope is pulled, the more the tube constricts. To splice single-braid, you simply tuck the end of the rope down the center of the fiber tube. If you look closely at the braid, you will see that six strands rotate to the left, and six strands rotate to the right around the rope. The rope is very slippery so the sail slides down easily and so small that it has very little windage.Ī single-braid rope is braided up with typically 12 strands of fiber, and this 12-strand braid forms a tube. Examples of this line are Samson Amsteel Blue (and New England Ropes Endura 12 (Even something as simple as lazy jacks can be better implemented in very small Spectra. These can all be replaced with 12-strand high-tech line made from Spectra, Dyneema and Vectran. We also all remember dirty wire, meat hooks and bulky Nicopress fittings. Using 7x19 wire in backstay adjusters, boom vang cascades, halyards and many other places used to be the norm. This all combines to give us a better "tool" to use on our boats. Fiber is easy to terminate too, and something you can do yourself. Fiber materials are far lighter, stronger pound for pound, less expensive, more flexible, smoother running and corrosion proof. I am not quite at a point say we don't need wire standing rigging, steering cables and the like but their day is coming, too. Single-braid, high-tech lines have displaced the need for 7x19 wire and Nicopresses. I am going to make the bold statement that there is no reason to use wire rope in our running rigging any longer. Strong, tough single-braid can replace wire with the right splicing method
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