Eye splices are handy but what if you want to make your Dyneema line longer?
Check out this video where I show you how to easily carry out an end to end splice.
How to Make a Dyneema Grommet
A rope ring is called a grommet and they are incredibly useful on a sailboat! Anything you need to connect or attach can be easily setup using a grommet. Once you have a few of them you will soon find uses for them and then need even more grommets for other uses you have found around the boat!
I use this very same technique to make the deadeyes that hold up our synthetic standing rigging. This grommet, made with a Möbius Brummell Splice is incredibly strong and will stand up to whatever challenges you can throw at it!
Integral Soft Shackle on your Sheet
Having a soft shackle at the end of your line is a great asset. A soft shackle lets you securely attach a line to something without the need for a knot. This means that anyone can connect the line without you needing to check their work for a proper knot.
What could fail with a soft shackle on an eye splice? Easy: someone could drop it overboard!
The best way to make a bullet proof soft shackle is to have it permanently attached to the end of your sheet. Making the soft shackle integral to the sheet itself!
Dyneema Eye Splice
Eye splicing Dyneema is simple and easy to do! In the past, I have shown pictures demonstrating the various steps to accomplish this result, but now I have a video of the process!
Wire Rope Eye Splice
Rope is rope and an eye splice is an eye splice, regardless of the material.
At a whaling museum in Flores, Azores, Portugal, I came across this impressive feat.
It’s a wire rope eye splice done in massively thick wire rope!
This eye splice used to be used in the terrible act of hauling dead whales from the shore to the “processing plant” where the oil was extracted from their tissues.
The rope was used under high loads and dragged over stone roads as it hauled the load up from the volcanic shoreline. Regular hemp rope at the time would not have been able to support the load or chafe, but it appears that wire rope was up to the challenge!
Regardless of the material, a splice is. a splice and following the pattern will result in a familiar looking result.
