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Dave,
The bottom line is: I have 90 meters (300 feet) of the double braid from a prior yacht that was used as an anchor rode and I liked it. I suppose I could cut off the eye splice with thimble, and put a small eye splice without a thimble in the end and through the last chain link - but I haven't seen anyone recommend that or heard from anyone that uses that attachment. I'm spending the Summer in Alaska this year with 4 - 6 meter (12 - 20 foot) tides and deep anchorages. I feel as though I should have the extra scope.
TA
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Sent: Monday, January 7, 2008 5:08:52 AM
Subject: [world-cruising] Re: Anchor rode attachment
--- In world-cruising@ yahoogroups. com, The Aryan <aryanwa at dot dot dot > wrote:
> I currently have a a 45 meter (150 feet) long all chain anchor rode
> with a twisted, nylon line, tail spliced on to the chain. I want to
> replace the tail with a braided line with nylon core, but the
> traditional, braided eye splice with thimble is too large to go
> through my deck access to my rode/chain locker. Can any of you
> point me to a suitable attachment of braided line to chain??
Rather than double-braid you might consider one of the 8- or 12-strand
lines. They retain the stretch of traditional 3-strand nylon with
massively improved stowage factors and greatly reduced hockling. Yale
makes an 8-strand called Brait and includes splicing instructions on
their web site ( http://www.yalecord age.com/html/ pleasure. html ).
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