And when that fails, Google for another YouTube.
I'd made the eye in the line with the blue tracer and it came out fine. Then realized that I'd bought line (for the outhaul) with the same pattern as a line already in the clutch set. So I got some of the more bland line and, fail! You can see two of them in the middle. Just could not get the core to pull back into the cover.
Now, all of these had been done using the NE Ropes / West Marine video. The one that worked and the three that didn't. So dug up the Marlow video I'd used last year. Bingo! The good splice at the bottom in the becket of the fiddle block. The two instructions are the reverse of each other. One buries the core first; the other the cover first. Different strokes for different years?
Does anyone have a favorite splicing guide? Perhaps different sources are better for different braids. Videos are nice; they make it easier to keep track of "the first mark" or "mark III."
On the clew car is an eye splice in Amsteel. This is the easy one: just thread the line back and forth through itself and bury lots of what remains. But you run the other end through this end; for the other eye, you don't have that option. Not gone there yet. Note to those wondering about this 12-plait and sizing. Because you bury so much of the loose line, the result is almost twice the diameter for quite a ways beyond the splice.
I'd made the eye in the line with the blue tracer and it came out fine. Then realized that I'd bought line (for the outhaul) with the same pattern as a line already in the clutch set. So I got some of the more bland line and, fail! You can see two of them in the middle. Just could not get the core to pull back into the cover.
Now, all of these had been done using the NE Ropes / West Marine video. The one that worked and the three that didn't. So dug up the Marlow video I'd used last year. Bingo! The good splice at the bottom in the becket of the fiddle block. The two instructions are the reverse of each other. One buries the core first; the other the cover first. Different strokes for different years?
Does anyone have a favorite splicing guide? Perhaps different sources are better for different braids. Videos are nice; they make it easier to keep track of "the first mark" or "mark III."
On the clew car is an eye splice in Amsteel. This is the easy one: just thread the line back and forth through itself and bury lots of what remains. But you run the other end through this end; for the other eye, you don't have that option. Not gone there yet. Note to those wondering about this 12-plait and sizing. Because you bury so much of the loose line, the result is almost twice the diameter for quite a ways beyond the splice.