Bloody Marlow D2 splice

[RoyB]

Originally Posted by NickfromWI

I've never heard of a rope being given an adhesive coating on the inside, so I had to go check it out. Sure enough, straight from marlow's website: "The inner core is coated with polyurethane to improve adhesion between core and cover giving outstanding performance in clutches and jammers and improving abrasion resistance when uncovered."

Nick - I've spliced other products that have urethane coated cores - Samson and others make them as well. They are used for stripped halyards and spinnaker sheets among other things.

I think the problem with D2 is that the urethane coating is quite heavy and the cover is woven very tight.

This combination hits hard when extracting the core and also when running the cover home as it increased the adhesion of cover to core

[NickfromWI]

I've spliced LOTS of ropes that have coated cores, but never something that had a coating that is INTENDED to make it sticky.

I'd love to try to splice it. I'm sure it would be fun....once.

love
nick