Thanks Brion - I'll try all of that after the race series ends :-)
I wound up just burying the cover , leaving a few feet of bare core, in which I made a bruied brummel. For our application this may be nearly optimum as it results in lighter sheet ends on the big asymmetric kite.
I'll watch the bare end for wear and chafe.
You have no idea how happy I was to find out that you agree the Marlow is hard to splice. I was starting to doubt my new found skills (that I mostly gained by reading your and Margie's Book 5 about splicing). It is without a doubt the best and clearest splicing manual I've seen and I've seen plenty.
One other thing I've noticed about the Marlow is that they seem to have used some sort of very light adhesive or something to make the cover stay put on the core. The side effect of this is that the line is unusably stiff. I think I'm going to need to run the core up over most of the length of the line and then "rebalance it" to break this apparent adhesive and allow the sheet to flex properly and not jam in the turning blocks.
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