MOORing pendant where can i buy them from?

[Cactus Sailing]

I’m looking for some 4m pendant mooring lines singles, preferable spliced loops at either end ( hopefully I said it right!)

I’ve tried the usual chandlers but I’m perhaps not typing in the right search term, I can find a metal eye and a spliced loop but I need two loops so I can feed it around the shackle

 

[lw395]

Either buy some rope and learn to splice, or try a rigger or online rope merchant?
Jimmy Green?

 

[VicS]

I’m looking for some 4m pendant mooring lines singles, preferable spliced loops at either end ( hopefully I said it right!)

I’ve tried the usual chandlers but I’m perhaps not typing in the right search term, I can find a metal eye and a spliced loop but I need two loops so I can feed it around the shackle

I dont understand what you are trying to do

BUT

You could buy the rope and splice the loops yourself

You dont say where you are but maybe your local chandlery will make what you want to order

Jimmy Green Marine offer a custom splicing service https://www.jimmygreen.co.uk/products/yacht-ropes---rigging/strops-and-bridles

I am sure others will do likewise

 

[duncan99210]

Here https://www.jimmygreen.co.uk/products/yacht-ropes---rigging/strops-and-bridles

 

[[70521]]

Jimmy Green's are local to me and I visit them at least once a year. Their advice and skills are fantastic.

 

[zoidberg]

Jimmy Green's are local to me and I visit them at least once a year. Their advice and skills are fantastic.

What's more ( or less ) they're doing a 'substantial discount' right now. Phone them pdq.

 

[eddystone]

I’m looking for some 4m pendant mooring lines singles, preferable spliced loops at either end ( hopefully I said it right!)

I’ve tried the usual chandlers but I’m perhaps not typing in the right search term, I can find a metal eye and a spliced loop but I need two loops so I can feed it around the shackle

I don't quite understand what you mean by feeding it around the shackle, either, but if you are anywhere near Jimmy Green, Westward Wire and Rope in Exeter are cheaper and will make up whatever you want.

 

[Kelpie]

Splicing isn't difficult.
Are you doing a larksfoot around the shackle, with a soft eye? With suitable rope that will work, but why not just get a galv thimble and shackle onto that, so no wear on the rope.

 

[Cactus Sailing]

Splicing isn't difficult.
Are you doing a larksfoot around the shackle, with a soft eye? With suitable rope that will work, but why not just get a galv thimble and shackle onto that, so no wear on the rope.

Yeah that’s what I’m doing, the old ones are done the same way and as it’s worked for many years I just wanted to replicate it without experimenting, if I’m splicing myself I may put some thimbles and invest in shackles too,

 

[Rafiki]

A company called EYE Marine aka Boatgeardirect
http://boatgeardirect.co.uk/

specialise in mooring/ anchoring equipment. They will make up whatever you want and in my experience considerably cheaper than Jimmy Green. Mail order or collect.

 

[Kelpie]

Gaelforce also will do splices for you.
I've just redone my strop in 32mm polysteel. Multiplait construction, pretty easy to splice. Whole thing inc shackle, thimble, and chafe protection cost about £50 (but I did the splices myself).

 

[alahol2]

A company called EYE Marine aka Boatgeardirect
http://boatgeardirect.co.uk/

specialise in mooring/ anchoring equipment. They will make up whatever you want and in my experience considerably cheaper than Jimmy Green. Mail order or collect.

I'll second that. Excellent service and sensible prices.

 

[Cactus Sailing]

another silly question about self splicing.... providing I follow the video I saw it looks relatively straight forward.. but how do you guys check your splices are good? just faith in your work or any other test methods?

I could do a practice bit and try towing my car up the drive... that would at least prove some 2,000kg strain?

^^ sorry if its a daft question

 

[ghostlymoron]

Provided there are enough tucks, it will be strong enough even if not pretty. The problem I've had is getting it tight enough round a thimble.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

another silly question about self splicing.... providing I follow the video I saw it looks relatively straight forward.. but how do you guys check your splices are good? just faith in your work or any other test methods?

I could do a practice bit and try towing my car up the drive... that would at least prove some 2,000kg strain?

^^ sorry if its a daft question

Basically, it will either be fine or it will fall apart if you give it a good pull! If you're near Ely, I'd happily show you how - splicing is really not difficult, and is a very useful skill. I learnt as a boy, and I wouldn't consider buying a pre-spliced rope, a) because I'm Yorkshire and would resent the added cost, and b) because I KNOW the splice is good! I've had to learn braid-on-braid splicing recently, but it isn't hard.

 

[Cactus Sailing]

Basically, it will either be fine or it will fall apart if you give it a good pull! If you're near Ely, I'd happily show you how - splicing is really not difficult, and is a very useful skill. I learnt as a boy, and I wouldn't consider buying a pre-spliced rope, a) because I'm Yorkshire and would resent the added cost, and b) because I KNOW the splice is good! I've had to learn braid-on-braid splicing recently, but it isn't hard.

bit far away but thanks for the offer, I have some old braid I can practice on as soon as I get my hands on some fids, so i'll post the results here in a week or so

in the meantime YouTube vids make it all look easy

 

[alahol2]

bit far away but thanks for the offer, I have some old braid I can practice on as soon as I get my hands on some fids, so i'll post the results here in a week or so

in the meantime YouTube vids make it all look easy

I'm not convinced that, for mooring pendant lines, braided rope is the best choice. Personally I'd use three strand or, my preference, multiplait. Pass it through some sort of chafe resister where it crosses your fairleads.
Both are easier to splice than braided rope.

 

[Kelpie]

Multiplait all the way. Get the biggest that will fit your bow roller.
Three strand can untwist itself, multiplait will be just cockle up a bit.
If in any doubt about your splices, add a good extra length for more tucks and then it isn't going to go anywhere.

 

[NormanS]

bit far away but thanks for the offer, I have some old braid I can practice on as soon as I get my hands on some fids, so i'll post the results here in a week or so

in the meantime YouTube vids make it all look easy

I wouldn't use braid for that, but if you are practicing splicing braid, you will find it much easier with an offcut of new rope. Old stuff makes it much more difficult. For a mooring pennant (or pendant) I would choose octoplait, and it's very easy to splice.

 

[jwilson]

I could do a practice bit and try towing my car up the drive... that would at least prove some 2,000kg strain?

Unless you have an incredibly steep drive and a monstrously heavy car you'd not be producing a 2,000 Kg test...... I just do a couple of tucks more than the minimum and then trust the splice. In 50+ years I've never had a splice come undone, though I only splice 3-strand or multiplait.