Gibb Snapshackle pictures

[christo2024]

I have put some pictures of this fiendish device on picasa and they can be viewed here. (oops, photo3 shows the insert the wrong way round)

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?un...&feat=email

I can only presume that the core of a braided rope as well as the sleeve should be flared out and the plastic insert then jambs the whole lot in. Has anyone used these things?
The fact that an internet search comes up with nothing suggests that they were not much cop. But they are very neat, incorporating a swivel, if only they can be relied on.

 

[saltwater_gypsy]

I think that what you have there is a fitting to take PROFIL rope.( I think thats the name.) which originated as a climbing rope. It is a non braided or weakly braided low stretch rope and was used for as a lightweight replacement for guardwires and light-weather sheets.
Are you sure it is a Gibb shackle and not Wichard?

 

[christo2024]

aha that sounds about right. All my attempts to try and fix a braided rope with a core have failed. If you think about it, it has to be for a rope with no inner core because thats where the insert goes. I've seen the light!!!!! Sheets only then and not halyards!

 

[theforeman]

i had a fitting similar to that on my last boat - used as the spinaker halyard. the big difference was that the fitting was metal, not plastic. ( the inner cone was plastic ). i would imagine the metal fitting could be tightened up much more than the plastic.
the ends of the guard rail ropes were anchored with the same sort of fitting, smaller, but again - metal.
never had any problem but don`t think i would trust plastic fittings on any halyard.