repairing damaged rope cover

[sailorman]

All done. In the end I did not want to cut or splice the core, because that is the strong part of the line. So I just cut off the damaged cover and stitched the end of the old cover to the core. Then I took another cover from an old sheet and milked it over the existing cover by an inch and stitched it into place. If it holds for another year I'll be happy. Looks funky too! I can tell people I've got super high tech sheet ends.
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So now to fix what ever did the damage :encouragement:

 

[PaulRainbow]

I thought that double braid lines shared their strength fairly equally inner to outer. Given the stitching, which is now shortest and hence taking the load? Agreed, dyneema cored ropes are mainly core strength.
In practice I think that most sheet sizes are bought by size for handling and self tailing winch jaw size, rather than the working load capability

I think you're right, which is why may suggestion was "Slide some replacement cover over and overlap the cut by about three inches, stitch this to the existing cover and whip over the join."

Double braid can be spliced end to end, to either join lines or create a loop, but to maintain as much strength as possible the slice has a lot of overlap, as does an eye splice of course.

 

[Foolish Muse]

Double braid can be spliced end to end, to either join lines or create a loop, but to maintain as much strength as possible the slice has a lot of overlap, as does an eye splice of course.

Yes, you're right. But I couldn't milk the new cover over top of the old cover any further than an inch or so. I wonder if it would have been better to use the cover from a larger size rope. If pulled tight, would it have shrunk down to fit the core? I should give this a try.

 

[Chalker]

Splicing old well loaded braid-on-braid is much more difficult than with new.