Eye splice in the middle of the rope how to?

[bigwow]

I'm making up a mooring bridle, I know how to do the eye splices on the ends but have never done one in the middle of rope, can't seem to find a howto on YouTube, unless someone on here knows different?
Thanks

 

[William_H]

I would suggest for a mooring bridle that 2 different ropes be used with splices each end. However for something like a single springer going to a centre cleat there are knots you can use. Or just a simple bowline in the middle. Or you splice the end of one rope into a point down from the end just like an eye splice. Then splice the end of the second rope into a point down from the end and splice of the first. So giving a loop in the middle. good luck olewill

 

[simonfe]

I cheated and formed the rope around a metal thimble to give wear resistance, held it all together with tie wraps and then whipped the two parts of the rope together down to the thimble with thin cord, I then taped over the cord to prevent chafing.
I then shackled this to the swivel on the mooring buoy.
Simon

 

[afterpegassus]

Not quite sure what you mean but if you wish to have two leaders then the easiest way is to have two singles; or if, like me, you use what comes your way, when after being given a length of multiplait (duo-deca plait?), I unravelled a couple of meters into two bundles of six strands, re-plaited these and spliced the ends. his gave me a single leader from the top of my mooring buoy with two equal eyes neatly formed to drop over my cleats.

 

[LadyInBed]

If your mooring buoy has a top eye then use two lines with eye splices in each end of both (put on some anti chafe tube before doing the 2nd splice).
Attach the lines to the buoy eye using cow hitches, not shackles, and put some anti chafe tube on the buoy eye under the cow hitches.

 

[Len Ingalls]

https://www.google.ca/search?q=cut+..._4dBEyz3M:&usg=__GsVZYw3K2xZ4IV9aaxllh2rcP3k=

 

[Len Ingalls]

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Bridle by tying main rode off to one side of bow & using a short bridle rope from other side. This bridle has a thimble spliced in outer end with a wooden toggle. Bring main rode up thru thimble & double loop rode around wooden toggle.
Cheers/ Len

 

[Kelpie]

Cut the rope, overlap, splice in as though you were doing an eye splice, leaving a gap between the two splices. This becomes the eye.

 

[jerrytug]

Cut the rope, overlap, splice in as though you were doing an eye splice, leaving a gap between the two splices. This becomes the eye.

That's known as a c*nt splice!

 

[DanTribe]

I was going to suggest a "cut" splice, but I don't think this is the right application. It's really intended to join two ropes with a straight pull. If a load is applied to the "eye", it will tend to pull the tucks backwards and undo the splice.
Originally named because of the shape it resembles, if my memory is correct.

 

[sailorman]

 

[bigwow]

Two bits of rope it is then :encouragement:

 

[sailorman]

For a bridle to have both tails pulling in similar directions then i would have thought that the start position on 1 line would need to be different to my pix and not equal as shown

 

[prv]

I was going to suggest a "cut" splice, but I don't think this is the right application. It's really intended to join two ropes with a straight pull. If a load is applied to the "eye", it will tend to pull the tucks backwards and undo the splice.

Agree.

If forced to work with a line with a **** splice in the middle, I can imagine a sort of cow-hitch through the ring that would put the strain fairly on the tucks. But really it's the wrong way of doing the job.

If this is for two pendants on a permanent mooring, I think two separate lines is the way to go. Either with soft eyes cow-hitched onto a large ring or shackle on the buoy, or hard eyes individually shackled on.

If it must be one piece of rope, I would put it around a thimble and seize the two sides together. A racking seizing would hold better when the strain is on only one of the legs.

Originally named because of the shape it resembles, if my memory is correct.

Yep, and then bowdlerised to "cut" in Victorian books.

Pete

 

[Jock89]

I know what you mean, but it's not a great way to solve your problem. Splices are meant to be pulled in a straight line, & even then they reduce the SWL+BS by up to 10-15% I believe. Every time I saw a rope break it was right at the end of the last 'tuck'.

To do that particular splice....go to a spot on the rope a bit above where you want the eye to be & start opening up the lay by twisting against it. Keep opening up & twisting until you have as much length as you need to get say, 4 or more 'tucks' into the standing part.
Decide size of eye you need & start your tucks there.

 

[LadyInBed]

Two bits of rope it is then :encouragement:

My lines have been on the way I described in #5 for 12 years. Easy to remove to check.

 

[sailorman]

My lines have been on the way I described in #5 for 12 years. Easy to remove to check.

if you have to have an anchor on the roller , the best way imho

 

[lw395]

I'm making up a mooring bridle, I know how to do the eye splices on the ends but have never done one in the middle of rope, can't seem to find a howto on YouTube, unless someone on here knows different?
Thanks

Why put a single point of failure into two mooring lines?

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I know what you mean, but it's not a great way to solve your problem. Splices are meant to be pulled in a straight line, & even then they reduce the SWL+BS by up to 10-15% I believe. Every time I saw a rope break it was right at the end of the last 'tuck'.

The reason it breaks at that point is because of stress concentration at the final tuck. The way to avoid it is to make your splice as usual, then make a further two tucks, cutting out a third of each strand before each tuck, so you have one tuck with 2/3 of the strand, and the final tuck with 1/3 of the strand. That tapers the splice, lessening the stress concentration. Of course, the splice should be served over as well.

 

[DannyB]

I made a eye splice on the end of one rope and spliced another rope in immediately after the eye splice, to give me a Y with the eye on one leg. I also back spliced the ends just for practice.