To install them the chainplate is basically a big backing plate with a hole going through it and the deck. I’m going to have to make some kind of rig to properly tension these to get the knots tight before I install them. This one is only pulled hand tight at the moment. Nor can the knot slip because the tails are these eye splices held by the main loop. As the buried tail reaches all the way upto the whipping it can’t slip as it is going all through the knot. This uses 2 simple Brummel splices which the loop goes through so that they go around the overhand know. This started as 3m (3000mm) of 9mm Dyneema and has ended up being about 300mm sticking out above the overhand knot. As I didn’t make the soft shackle eye I’ve put a simple whipping to hold the low friction ring. It is essentially a soft shackle with overhand knot (I tried this one without the soft shackle eye but will put that in the next one). Now we have my first attempt to make a chainplate loop. At the top another eye splice will be fitted to the custom tangs I’m going to make. I’ve put a low friction ring in this eye splice which is what will be used at the bottom of the shroud. The double locking stops the splice from slipping but another key to the strength is tapering the buried portion (so there are no kinks caused by sudden changes in direction for the fibres), my taper ended up being 360mm long. For simplicity and an overabundance of caution I decided on 720mm of bury (I think I ended up with about 680mm on this first attempt). Our Mizzen Shrouds are 9mm (for reasoning behind that choice see The mysteries of sizing Dyneema standing rigging). As Dyneema is slippery you need to bury a tail that is 72 times the diameter of the line in length.
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To see how to do this splice see this video from Rigging Doctor. I’m going to make sure I practice lots before the first real splice 🙂 This is a Möbius Brummel splice (which means it is locked in two directions with a long straight bury. It isn’t very good, but that isn’t a surprise. The first image shows my very first Dyneema Eye Splice. As a result we can see how the Shrouds and Chainplates are going to work. That means I’ve been able to do some practice splicing. We haven’t been able to get to the boat this week, Jane has been ill and I had a seminar on my day off.īut we have had a delivery from Jimmy Green Marine.
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