Splicing and Whipping your own line, good skills to learn

[freelancer]

Re: Splicing and Whipping your own line, good skills to learn

Look up Army regulatin 56-9. All you meed to know about knots and marlinspike.

Where can we find a copy of 56-9? Don't tell me I have to sign up again

 

[Mohawkmtrs]

Re: Splicing and Whipping your own line, good skills to learn

Learned marlinspike (splicing, whipping, etc) from Canadian Power Squadron years ago.

All my friends come to me for their rope needs and what-knot!

 

[freelancer]

Re: Splicing and Whipping your own line, good skills to learn

I work in buildings and use my keys throughout the day; I went through about 4 of those retractable key chains that just kept falling apart. I needed something that was secure and easy to get to.

Here's a key chain that I made out of a monkey's fist, I keep it next to my phone on my hip.
It stays put all day long under my belt with no clip and when I need to use my keys, I just push down with my thumb and it comes right out. Just another use for splicing.

 

[Thalasso]

Re: Splicing and Whipping your own line, good skills to learn

Monkey Fist? I havn't heard that term in over 40 years. I can remember splicing spring lay. How many have heard that term? Monkey fist were used when passing lines.

 

[freelancer]

Re: Splicing and Whipping your own line, good skills to learn

I can remember splicing spring lay. How many have heard that term?

"spring lay" Please explain

 

[Thalasso]

Re: Splicing and Whipping your own line, good skills to learn

Spring lay is cable with manilla rope intwined in the cable to give more flex when tying up ships.

 

[Art Bernard]

Re: Splicing and Whipping your own line, good skills to learn

Splicing and knot work is a skill I learned in the Navy and has come in extreamly handy over the years, I highly recomend all boaters learn it to some degree.

Art

 

[freelancer]

Re: Splicing and Whipping your own line, good skills to learn

According to 92% of those that voted, they would splice line to use on their vessels.

Seems that we should all have a basic understanding of knot tying and maybe the three strand splice. It gets kind of interesting to see the types of lines you wind up with once their spiced.

Would like to see some pics if you give it a try, good luck.

 

[sea_goin_dude]

Re: Splicing and Whipping your own line, good skills to learn

learn to tie knots at this site. Not good to have a slippp knot or an OOOPS at the wrong time

http://www.marinews.com/knots/

Lots of other marine tips also.

 

[Jim Vintner]

Re: Splicing and Whipping your own line, good skills to learn

here's one piece of article that I find to have good advice on splicing.
http://www.boatropes.co.uk/what splice to use (I am not selling anything)
I hope it helps.

 

[Bob's Garage]

Re: Splicing and Whipping your own line, good skills to learn

here's one piece of article that I find to have good advice on splicing.
http://www.boatropes.co.uk/what splice to use (I am not selling anything)
I hope it helps.

This is a year old post but always good to know information that never ages.

A useful site is www.animatedknots.com, it has a large selection of knots, bends and splices and you can control the animated instructions.