We continue working on our Anchor rode extension and after cutting the line, we show how we keep the line from fraying. In this case by doing a simple whippi...

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in the last video we had just finished

splicing the three strand rope to the

anchor chain and we took off to dinner

so now it's time to finish that project

up and pick up where we left off which

is going to be to trim the bitter end

finish it off with a whipping and

ultimately store the anchor line so I'm

not lining out the the rope you can see

here I've got all my chain that's been

sitting on the deck for a while I

basically just have the line stretched

all the way down the boat to the cockpit

with enough of it there it would take it

all the way to the back of the boat

I got 51 feet on deck so then I'm gonna

have just over 150 feet of this which is

what I've marked out right to here the

blue mark so now time to go ahead and

cut this I'm gonna do here is cut it

right on this tape in hopes to keep it

from fraying on either side

this is a good sharp knife it's pretty

important doing this

and then we have it bullpens we're gonna

go ahead and whip the end of this line

we're gonna start with my whipping twine

having a wax twine

so I just went ahead and cut off a

length of this it's important to get

enough so that when might finish my

whipping my number of turns around this

should be the same thickness as that you

want to start with the bitter end of the

whipping twine right at the edge of the

bitter end of the line and you go up

about four inches on the line and you

form a loop and then you leave the long

end hanging out there I'm gonna start my

whipping right about at the tape and I

want to go to the same diameter now so

I'm gonna go to about here see I got a

pretty good sized loop here I'm just

gonna hold that there for a minute and

I'm gonna start my wraps

not the easiest things you want to

really get this started I'm gonna on a

couple of tight loops around then what

I'm gonna do now is I'm just gonna kind

of keep running upward toward the loop

into this I want to do it tight as I

want to gets to be a good strong fit

because it's three strand line it's not

quite as easy to get started as like a

double braid would be you know a lot of

people like to have an alternating color

for the whipping which I can agree with

it makes it very easy to see what you've

done but this is actually gonna be tied

in the anchor Locker so I'm not too

worried about the look I'm more worried

about the functionality and honestly to

practice

you might do a couple loops and then

have to come back and push them tight

just to make sure there's no gaps

between them like I just did there

so I'm just about to the thickness of

the line I'm gonna go a couple of more

wraps here you want to apply pressure

this whole thing the idea is you want it

to be good and good and tight really

keep it from fray and once we cut this

I'm gonna do is coming up on our loop

here you want to do is take our line

pass it up through this loop you want to

pull the bitter end through here I

should've left this little longer gonna

pull it but I'm just going to use my

needle nose here give this a tug what we

want to do is basically cinch this knot

down by pulling this here you'll see see

how it cinched it down right there and

now we want to continue to pull it until

the let's cinch is halfway down through

the through the whipping

not so easy to see so I'm gonna use my

pliers here

and I can see where it isn't there so we

now have a very strong whipping here

there's a lot of elaborate ways to do

this we could have some ease or actually

run it with some needles and pushed it

right onto you but this is gonna hold

just fine I'm now gonna cut this line

just maybe an eighth of an inch beyond

my whipping the reason I'm gonna do that

is I'm gonna melt the end of this

this we're gonna cut this yeah I'll show

you in a minute

look at there

nice whipping looks good huh

I with the whipping complete it's now

time to start flipping the line down

through the opening in the back so think

of the looks of this actually had a

small light in the camera pointing into

the chain Locker and I went up top and I

just dropped the bitter end of the line

down through the deck simple as

connecting it to the strong

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