History Of The Double Braid Eye Splice

When I was onboard USS Missouri(BB-63) we had 300' of double braid with an eye splice. This stuff as big around as my calf and was stowed in the bullnose in a sealed hold. It took 10 guys to deal with it and once we stowed it with the splice on the bottom..."Schultz! The eye splice goes on TOP where it can be dropped over a shore bollard! Get your guys and reverse it now" oops
 
For what it's worth, I did a little more research on the history of the double-braid splices and found out some interesting info.

Some of you may already know about this. As my above diagrams in the link show, there is very little, or in some areas no core bury.

The idea behind this theory, was that by having the cover on one side of the eye and then having the hollow cover on the other side, you had in theory around 150% of the rope strength.

Well, it turned out that this thinking was totally wrong and actually ended up getting a few people KILLED! The reason was, any chafe or eccentric loading tended to make the eye MUCH weaker than the standing part.

That is why the current specifications have been developed, with the core buried one long fid (or as I was taught by Brion Toss - 14 dia.) down the standing part.

Thanks goes to Brion, for providing me with much of this info, as well as for my passion for splicing double-braid rope.
 
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I'd love to sail with that cat. I think Kathy knows him.

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You and me both! Yeah, Kathy knows Brion. I think that she's been to some of his workshops.
 
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