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![]() I am trying to come up with a soft shackle variation for attaching eye spliced StaSet jib sheets to a clew ring that is extremely fast but uses line instead of metal. Using a normal soft shackle is not very fast and not suitable to the application I have in mind.
I have thought of two options. Both methods use a the stopper knot loop on the clew so that the soft shackle can be easily opened and closed without having to thread anything through loops and milk it closed around a circle like with a normal soft shackle. At first I thought I would use a soft shackle with an opening between the crossover and the diamond knot and loop it around the eye spliced sheets like this: But the way it pulls on the weak diamond knot worries me so I thought of splicing instead of using a diamond knot like this: But the splice is only 29 diameters on each side to keep the thing from getting too long. It is lock stitched on each side of the corssover so it won't come apart at light loads. Perhaps I could figure out how to do a brummel crossover rather than stitching, not sure. I know you recommend 72 diameters but my question is, how much is lost when the splice is shorter? In this case, each splice has half the load of a normal eye splice so if I lose 1/2 the strength by having the splice shorter than I am ahead as I lose more than half for sure with the diamond knot approach, perhaps a lot more due to the strange loading on the knot. Losing half the strength at a point where the line has half the load would still leave me with line strength, which is my goal. I know you have done a lot or work on how long the bury should be and wondered if you can share the strength vs length of bury results. Allen |
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