Master the Dyneema Eye Splice with a Thimble

[@tednottodd]

Very timely demonstration for me. I'm re-rigging my small sailing dinghy and am going to be using dyneema if I can get small enough thimbles.

[@BottomUPBoats]

Glad it was helpful!

[@andyisaksen8352]

Great tutorial! Thank you!!!

[@BottomUPBoats]

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[@PilotMcbride]

Not too bad young fella. Learned rope husbandry back in the 60s as a kid when we lived by the water. Had a couple of small boats for belting around the estuary driving the MSB Officer crazy. We learned rope work off the old fellas up the road, ex WWI guys who kept to themselves, built clinker boats for various people. Anyway, they taught us to marry, eye, protected eye, back and what they called safety loop, as well as whipping. The only non fibre rope we ever saw back then was nylon stranded. Even our abseiling ropes were hemp. The protected eye splice was just a standard eye whipped around the eye and down the rope a few inches (thingamemetres 😂😂). We had 2 small sailers, a 12ft tinny and small hydroplane style zoomer, used to pull about 30knots with a 10hp outboard. The MSB fella never had a chance catching us 😂, knew where we lived, was forever ringing the old man complaining about us, but we knew all the banks, bars and shortcuts he couldn’t do in his (at that time) twin 80hp super you beaut rooster tail forming piece of rubbish. We were good natured feral kids who looked after our aging neighbours and they really enjoyed watching us “giving it to the man”. He was, and I kid you not, the Australian version of Inspector Blake from On The Buses 😂😂😂 If we weren’t giving old Harry grief we were sailing, surfing or fishing, everything to do with water, great memories. Anyway, thanks for posting, have enjoyed watching your vids, still maintaining my old stranded ropes….. I should mention, when I was doing my elec apprenticeship in the 70s, our old tool store man was a Kokoda survivor, poor bugger, he was really messed up and on the sherry & rum. I’d do his rope maintenance for him as the were safety items and he was just too messed up. Anyway, thank you for your time and info, really appreciate it 👋👋👋 P.S. I hope you can make sense of my chicken scratchin’s 🤣🤣 Cheers mate

[@BottomUPBoats]

Thanks so much for sharing these memories, there is nothing quite like a life on the sea. feels like you would have mastered our latest video before I was born as this one would work best with the traditional hemp ropes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4Csg6iFrtSZqNU KZbin has change how every generation will learn in the future, can't help but feel that your journey to knowledge was a lot more fun !!!!

[@boardbroker1]

Excellent tutorial.

[@BottomUPBoats]

Thanks for stopping by. Glad you found it useful 👍

[@yfelwulf]

Question I understand the normal way to Splice hollow braid is pass the working end through go down 2 or 3 crossovers xxx pass through again xxx if needed xxx one more pass through again then bury the end. Why is this method any better if at all you're still relying on friction to hold it all together.

[@BottomUPBoats]

With this method the Brummell locks the splice as it pull Li’s tight on itself. The final bury of the tail, helps but the mean pressure come from the steps. XXX could become loose under no load

[@ozosman3234]

Hi there, i am thinking of replacing part of the standing rigging on my 22 foot sailing boat from stainless steel to dyneema. I was thinking of the 2 lowers and backstay. My question is, would those eye splices be strong enough for the job, please. Best regards Oz from England.

[@BottomUPBoats]

If you get the right diameter of dyneema it will be more than strong enough. In many case the rope can have a higher breaking load than traditional wire. I have a j109 which is 36 foot long and I use dyneema for my back stay. The J1019 has a mast head kite so the loads can be high. The only point to consider is that dyneema will stretch as the rope beds in. This is why many still choose metal rigging for the lowers. You could always tighten the splice if it did stretch