Amsteel Halyard splice to shackle

[allene]

I made a short section of the inter core of the LS, just enough to cover the length of the splice, then a few inches of taper on each end. I buried that inside the amsteel where the splice was going to be leaving about a foot of amsteel beyond that to be buried. This was all covered by the LS outer braid. I then tucked the amsteel inside itself through the outer LS cover and along side the inner braid tail. The amsteel was lock stitched at the point of the splice then everything buried inside the LS cover. What an absolute bitch to bury. Way too tight. If I had it to do over again, I would either leave out the inner core, or tail it off more quickly so that there wasn't so much mass at the splice. The other end of the LS cover wasn't such a problem. I buried it inside the amsteel. There was no way in hell to bury the LS cover at the splice so I wrapped everything and tied it off. It worked but took at least an hour to do. Net time I leave out the LS core and bury the LS cover long enough to add some strength from the cover. I think that is a better way to go.

Oh, at the point that the winch and cleat are, I covered the amsteel with the LS cover and buried the ends in the amsteel. That worked great with the 7/16 LS over the 1/4 amsteel.

Cheers,

Allen