Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
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still can't wrap my head on how you splice a rope and still have so much fabric left.
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What are they used for? Is such a high breaking strength necessary?
Very cool stuff @Giles ! Please keep posting them. -
I will use this one as part of my anchor bridle. If you go here,
http://kestrelsails.com/2020/05/27/building-an-anchor-bridle/
then where this guy uses a metal shackle, I will use the soft-shackle.
I'm trying to minimise the use of things that will corrode, plus it is way lighter and stronger than a metal shackle. Do I need this breaking strain? No, but no harm in a bit of over-engineering.
I'll also make some soft-shackles to attach the fixed mooring warps to the cleats on our jetty. I can make the soft shackles in advance, but I can't build the warps until I know the placement of the cleats on the jetty and the cleats on the boat. The 4 or 5 warps will usually be left behind on the jetty when we go for short trips, but I want to be able to unattach them from the jetty cleats when we are away on longer trips, the soft-shackles are ideal for this, no tools needed and don't corrode.
I've just made the pennant that will attach the anchor bridle to the anchor chain imagine the chair is the anchor chain, I may make another, I had a different concept in mind when I started splicing this, so it is possibly not long enough and it has asymmetrical end eyes (which do not matter from a functionality point of view, but piss me off aesthetically)….......
This is how I originally envisaged it would work, if I get no slippage from this knot on the anchor chain with this arrangement, I don't need to build a new pennant…
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This thread continues to bring me lots of joy. G, do you have any book recommendations on the knot tying front?
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I have this,
https://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=17049.msg764028#msg764028
but tend to use YouTube, especially as many of the knots I am tying are not described in the book, but also because I think I'm better at following a video than interpreting drawings….
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Today's exercise was to tie a spliced eye in my 7/8" (22mm) mooring warps and then add a leather chafe guard. A long way from perfect, but I learned a lot. The next one will probably take me a quarter of the time and be a lot better. The reddy-brown stuff on the chafe guard is blood (the needle I was using is SUPER-sharp)….
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That spliced eye with chafe guard looks like a pro job to me! Congratulations Giles, very clean look you achieved there.
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Am seriously impressed by the splicing and other techniques Giles is learning, and it keeps him quiet for hours…
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@Madame:
Am seriously impressed by the splicing and other techniques Giles is learning, and it keeps him quiet for hours…
Very funny…...
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We are often short-handed - just Paula and me. And the way we moor, we need to get a stern-line over a shore-side cleat very quickly, and then get to the bow of the boat to secure the bow-line. I noticed when we were out on Christmas day, that it was taking ages to tie the existing mooring warp to the cleat, so I have made a specific warp, which I hope will make things a lot simpler…..We're going to the boat in a min,to see if I made it the right length, I have a feeling I haven't......
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And, in any other news. I was confirming the insurance quote we had for SAKURA with the insurers. They came back to me and asked whether getting our coastal skipper/yacht master theory done over the winter was still going to happen. I'd forgotten, that in a telephone conversation I had with them in September, I had glibly said that our plans were to do the theory over the winter and then do the practical on SAKURA later in the year. Unbeknown to me, that had become a condition of the offer…....
So, we have booked the 6-day theory course for the last week of January.....
