In this weeks episode we are going to be splicing 3 strand rope or line with chain. See more details in our blog post at http://svdreamchaser.com/2016/11/spl...

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you'll hear at the sailing vessel

dreamchaser and in today's episode I'm

gonna actually be splicing a three

stranded rope to a anchor chain as you

know we've been working on the teak

decks and before I actually started

doing all of the teak I pulled all the

anchor out anchor chain out of the

anchor Locker and I splayed it out on

deck and about six feet six foot long

sections back and forth there's a lot of

chain up there it kind of got to be 500

pounds of chain sit on the deck all

right as we get started here's what we

ultimately need to do this obviously we

have our chain we have our three-quarter

inch three strand rope we have a knife

to cut it

we have lighter to burn the edges to

keep it from unraveling we have a small

spicing splicing FID and what is that

McKinley we have one of those and that

is very important also what ahead and

have a pair of vise grips

needle nose whatever Justin you're gonna

need to pull on through with something a

little harder to pull there we go do his

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unraveling section of this

you can see somebody's already wrapped

it I'm gonna do the same here

we want to make sure of is that we

you look good edge here I'm going to

reuse a little bit of this tape

basically I'm just going to wrap this

tightly keep it from fraying in a moment

and notice I'm also going to try and run

this up to almost a point it'll help us

as we're trying to splice it into the

braids

you the next year

just going up to a former point and then

coming back

nice angling I want to I want to have my

tape going from the tip down because as

I push through things I don't want it to

pull right off of there I didn't have

enough electrical tape I'm going to use

some of this for the next section

kind of forming this into a point one

end and I'm gonna start coming back the

other way with it it's a little harder

to use white tape like this a little

messier want to label these one two and

three and this will help me brought me a

sharpie my blue is going to be a two I'm

gonna make one of these number one in

order to do it I'm just going to put a

stripe on the one that is labeled as

number one

now I know my coding black tape with

single stripe is one blue is to my

Center and the one with nothing is going

to be number three

honestly I'd rather have a little extra

they're not so you'll notice we have

this splayed out now again number one

has my single line to the blue three

three is the one with no markings as I

mentioned we want to we want to lay this

right here where we actually want to do

the splice start two of them on one side

of one on the other take this middle one

here you're looking at is me actually

reading this we're gonna go together

we're gonna take this one we're gonna

run it from the back forward I'm going

to start with number two is we do that

whatever direction we passed strand two

in we want both one and three to go the

opposite way since trying to went from

the back to the front we're going to do

these from the front to the back

now that I've done that I'm gonna go

ahead and take my tape off here what is

what that's a spider web hey won't hurt

you under one pattern actually go over

this strand and into the next one

just

she's pulling these nice and tight now

in order to do this I want to turn this

over again very similarly I'm going to

do the same thing you want to go over I

know there's going to go over this one

and into the next one

I want to make sure this is good and

tight so I'm gonna start with number one

this is the first one I put in there

number three right go back to number one

and every time it's over and under

and you want to kind of give these

things a good tight pull keep it shaped

the way you want

kids really make this a lot easier it's

certainly possible without it but for

six bucks or whatever is well worth

giving it a little feed here and we'll

area that tuck your line

once you have it through there you can

get a pull make sure you get it falling

in the same direction as delay and one

of the line already twist

you know we're gonna change patterns you

just did one two three

now I'm gonna skip one cuz I want to

start getting this a little bit too

narrow go right to number two do the

same thing now skipped over one

number two in

and that's number one we don't want to

do anything with that we're gonna go at

you number three make sure we do that

number three not number one you can see

number one still long because we stopped

sooner than the rest

now he stopped with number one we did

two three and we're not going to do

number two we're gonna come back with my

new number three again we're really

doing is we're gonna get these lining up

as they come through here so it gets

thinner over that one and under this one

just like we've been doing the ropes get

a lot tighter too which is a good

problem

it's plunge

this is where a push stick would be

handy but

I'm just gonna wind it a little bit here

so you'll notice we have a long one stop

number one we did then we braided to

three you stop number two and then we

just braided three ideas it's from a

thinner and it slowly gets dickering

gonna burn this edge

we want to do is let me melt these

fibers together so if they don't run

around

the braid looks like you can see it's

thicker here and it tapers down into the

three-quarter inch line right here we

basically just burn these edges a little

bit so that they won't slide back

through there and you see it's kind of

all held together I like the way this

joint looks best it's kind of worked its

way down in there I think that'll work

well but I like it I think it looks

pretty good and there's a close-up just

kind of show you what this looks like

you can kind of see here how it's graded

all the way through

looks good on the backside so that work

this will give us an extra 150 maybe 200

foot of road I'm gonna put down in the

in the anchor Locker all right so there

we have it we've got our braid and now

I'll start loading this stuff into the

anchor lock

you put it over there okay it's gonna

fit in there baby

it's not gonna fit in there

I'm Batman

we're going to

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