can you splice like the pros?

Oct 22, 2014
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CAL 35 Cruiser #21 moored EVERETT WA
Heavy duty.
That testing machine is the same type used to test the strength of the soft shackles I make.
Too cool computer based testing.
 
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capta

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Jun 4, 2009
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Pearson 530 Admiralty Bay, Bequia SVG
My old gaffer had spliced wire eyes aloft and at the turnbuckles. When I sold her, I no longer needed that trade and my fingers thanked me profusely. It can be very painful, getting stuck by all those tiny wires when doing a splice.
 

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Mar 23, 2017
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Belliure 41 Sailing back to the Chesapeake
That's big wire rope those folks were working with. Tough stuff!

dj

p.s. thanks for posting, great video!
 
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