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you pull it fairly tight and then move on to the next line, the Gray line then goes over the line that the black one is under, and under the next one, like in Figure 2. In Figure 1 to the left, the black line goes over the first strand and under the second. This is hard to explain but much easier in a diagram. At this time you now pick a line and start by going over the first non untwisted strand and under the second one. You start by putting line #2 in from the back (or one way) of the last link, the other 2 lines (#1 and #3) should go from the top to the back (the opposite way). I wanted it to flow nicely over the anchor rollers and windlass gypsy.

In this method, I wanted to have the splice be tapered so it didn’t go from single to double size in one spot. This is really important to make sure that you don’t lose track of which strand you are working on. The blue taped line would be line #2 and the black taped end with no markings would be line #3. On one of the black tape ends, I used a market to draw a line around the line indicating that the black end with the black marker line was line #1. I ended up with 2 black and one blue taped end. I happened to have some black electrical tape and blue painters tape handy, so I just used that.

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When we start to do the splicing, it is important to keep track of which strand you are using, so I like to color code the tape if possible. As I started to separate just the first few inches, I then taped each individual strand together. if you just untwist / unwind the lines you can separate them easily. I then counted down about 5-7 strands from the end of the line and I started to untwist the line.

The chain kept trying to slide off the table. In hindsight I should have just sat on the deck and worked there. I started by laying out the chain end (the bitter end that in my case was up on deck and was going to be put down through the deck and connected in the chain locker below) on a small folding table so it was comfortable to work. I looked for other options and found a very inexpensive option that allows it to work with several different sizes of line including the thick 3/4″ 3 strand line I was working with for this anchor rode. With that I needed a new splicing fid and didn’t want to spend that much on a replacement kit, that lets face it, based on history will likely be lost before I need to use it again. It was about $60 at West Marine and now that I needed it many years later, I will be darned if I can find any part of that kit. The ones I had were the samson kit that has the needle fids, the push rod and instructions along with a carrying tube. At that time, I am fairly certain, I bought a high dollar set of fids for splicing but be darned if I could find them. The first time was a small seminar/class Deb and I took at the West Marine store near where we lived about 6 years ago.

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In the spirit of full disclosure, this is only the 2nd time I have braided line. You will get your money back from the tool after just your first line compared to buying one already prepared this way. The process is pretty simple, but I found that you have to have a marking system which I will cover below as well as a couple of tools that made this really helpful and they are in expensive.

Using this I arranged my tools and went to work.

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Click HERE for a link to the PDF on how to do this as well.

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There are a few references out there for how to do it but I consider Samson Rope and tool guides to be some pretty good ones that are free on the internet. Actually there was a much more practical reason, we wanted to be able to have the line go right over the windless and not have a large shackle and eye get caught on the windless, rollers or even the opening through the deck down into the chain locker. Show off our piraty skills, get it matey Arrgghh. We could have just used a bowline knot or an eye splice with a swivel shackle on the bitter end of the chain, but we wanted to be all nautical and stuff. I really need to measure it out but I have estimated that there is approximately 200-300 feet of chain so adding the additional rode will really provide us additional deeper water options if we needed it. Rather than just put in a 5 or 6 foot section we decided to add some additional length to our anchor rode by combining line (Rope) to our anchor chain. The survey called out an error in this stating that there was a need to have a section of line between the chain and the anchor point so in the event of an emergency it could be “cut-away”. When we bought DreamChaser the anchor chain was connected to an “eye” screwed into the based on the Anchor Chain locker.