Splicing 24 Braid Anchor Rope to Chain

[Renoir]

Consider making up a double-braid polyester/Dacron"interface" between the last link of the chain and an eye splice in the rode. I've found this to be fairly bulletproof. Simply make an eye splice in the double-braid to the chain (carefully dress down any anomalies in the surface of the chain zinc and cover with sailtape) then make an eye in the other end of the "interface" piece and join the rode to that. The eyes will present almost 100% load rating and will be balanced.

The length of the double-braid needs to be sufficiently long so as to be able to easily run home both eye splices...probably 8 ft minimum, more is better. If the eye in the rode is large enough you can hand an entire crate of rode through it so that one doesn't have to laborously pass the entire rode linearly throught the double-braid eye before pulling tight.

The double-braid polyester does not stretch and chafe on the chain like nylon can.