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My three-strand rope anchor cable is presently joined to the chain with an eye splice round a thimble and a large shackle. This won't go down the navel pipe!Does anyone know where I can find out how to do a rope to chain spice. please?

Cheers! Neil


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Neil,

Or quicker try <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.jimmygreen.co.uk/chandlery/anchorplait_splices.htm> here </A>

As easy as old rope!

All the best (of luck)
Trevor

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Unfortunately Trevor's suggestion is for anchorplait and you have a three strand line. You can do a chain splice directly onto the end link of your chain but it will have considerably less strength than that of the rope itself as you pass only two of the strands through the link. If you want to try it you unlay one strand for about twenty five diameters of the rope, passing the other two strands (still laid together) through the chain end link thus forming an eye. You now have to further unlay the single strand (about twenty diameters) and use one of the two strands to replace it in the main lay of the rope (effectively a long splice). The splice is ended by tucking each of the three strands - suitably shortened- about four or five times into the lay of the rope.

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you can use the method advised for combination rope/chain gypsies:

unlay about 20cm of rope, pass two strands through the last link of the chain in one direction and the other strand through the same link in the opposite direction. then tuck the strands as for an ordinary eye splice (three rows of tucks with the full thickness of the strands, reduce each by 1/3 for the 4th row, and 2/3 for the 5th row.

there is some weakening because of the tight turn through the chain but this is generally considered acceptable as long as the rope is of adequate size in the first place.

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Many thanks all! I did try a web-search, but I was using Yahoo and got lots of people who wanted to do the job for me. Bluemoment.com is a Gem! I guess all these splices do sacrifice some of the rope's strength (even my eye splice around a thimble). It's also interesting to think that the multiplait-chain splice shown on bluemoment.com requires an even number of strands. You could divide one of the three-strands into two to achieve this, and then you'd have another option.

Good sailing - and try not to think about antifouling!

Neil

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