Double-braid Eyesplice

[amkaplan]

Hi Brion,

I've got to redo a halyard eyesplice, as the eye chafed through at the shackle. I was working this with a friend with your book "Working Rope" at hand, and when we finished, realized that somewhere we screwed up and got a differential between the core and cover. We're going to start it over (when it's not so cold and wet outside!), but in the meantime, I've been doing research.

My confusion at this point lies between what appears to be between what you show in "Working Rope"' and my copy of "Complete Rigger's Apprentice" and methods I see elsewhere, such as Samson. Your version tucks the core back through the cover, and has the tapered cover tucked into the core with the end going the SAME direction as the core, and then snugging the whole thing up. The other way that I see others (including Samson, Yale) do it is to to tuck the cover into the core with the end going in the opposite direction to the core's, AWAY from its bitter end, then tucking the core into the cover and then snugging.

"Your" way
-your books
-NE Ropes: www.neropes.com/SPL_DoubleEyeSplice.aspx

The "other" way
-Samson: http://www.samsonrope.com/site_files...Splice_Rev.pdf
-Yale: http://www.yalecordage.com/html/pdf/...ust_dbraid.pdf
-http://www.swinginonastar.org/index_...dEyeSplice.htm
-VERY good video: http://www.latsandatts.tv/how-to-det...=20&cat=how_to

Can you please comment on these two methods for me (merits, differences, etc.)? I'm a bit confounded. I will say that the way you do it seems more intuitive to me, with less potential to get differences in core and cover lengths. Am I on track?

Thanks,

Allan Kaplan
S/V Aurora
Baba 40 Ketch
Seattle, WA
www.allankaplan.net/aurora/aurora.html