lustyd
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My main halyard is in exactly this state at the moment. I'm embarrassed to admit the tape has even faded before unwinding, showing that I've had 2 years to put it right!
"Dip-it, Whip-it" and/or butane "Hot Seal" knife
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My main halyard is in exactly this state at the moment. I'm embarrassed to admit the tape has even faded before unwinding, showing that I've had 2 years to put it right!
alahol2
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Here you go...
http://www.animatedknots.com/sailmakers/#Movie
For braided rope use a needle to get the passes through the rope.
Boo2
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Does anyone know an equivalent video for a sailmaker's whipping through braided rope ?
Boo2
alahol2
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winsbury
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I sell rope for mountain and caving sports so often cut various lengths and diameters in a variety of materials and handle more than the average amount of rope a person sees in a lifetime, all these have braided sheaths and a professional electrically powered hot knife is used to cut and seal, no additional whipping or chemicals at all. As an ex-climber myself I had never even seen a whipped rope until I started sailing. None of the hot knifed ropes ever had a problem with unravelling the exception of some very heavily used ones at sports climbing walls where some sheath slippage would occur but this was just trimmed off with a hot knife again from time to time for neatness.
Since starting sailing I have learned a great deal more about other rope types and splices. There have been times where I've wanted to do a quick cut and seal in the boat park but all the gas powered methods Ive tried have given an inferior seal often with burns or sharp bits once it cools compared to results using a proper electric hot knife blade which cuts and seals simultaneously.
For my own sailing all braided lines are simply heat cut and sealed. I only use whipping on three strand or octoplait if the end has to stay small enough to pass though an eye, otherwise I use a back splice ( butt splice ) which is very neat and means in the dark I can feel the end of the rope easier. I have come across some high performance dinghy ropes which wont heat seal properly at all ( shockcord is also impossible to heat seal properly ) and a splice or whipping is the only option but for cruiser sailing I doubt anyone will be using those kinds of materials due to the very high costs.
Since starting sailing I have learned a great deal more about other rope types and splices. There have been times where I've wanted to do a quick cut and seal in the boat park but all the gas powered methods Ive tried have given an inferior seal often with burns or sharp bits once it cools compared to results using a proper electric hot knife blade which cuts and seals simultaneously.
For my own sailing all braided lines are simply heat cut and sealed. I only use whipping on three strand or octoplait if the end has to stay small enough to pass though an eye, otherwise I use a back splice ( butt splice ) which is very neat and means in the dark I can feel the end of the rope easier. I have come across some high performance dinghy ropes which wont heat seal properly at all ( shockcord is also impossible to heat seal properly ) and a splice or whipping is the only option but for cruiser sailing I doubt anyone will be using those kinds of materials due to the very high costs.
srah1953
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Thank you Alahol for both of these
Boo2
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sailorman
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Same reason folk with small boats AWB`s (under 40`) have bow thrustersIf you don't have the time to put a proper whipping on with twine then you're not doing boating properly. Stay at anchor for a night and you'll soon have them all done
The products which are designed to make this quicker were not designed to do this better, they are the result of people wanting to take shortcuts, and others taking advantage of them.
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