How to Splice Modern Rigging

A splice does not only look elegant and seamanlike, but is also the strongest connection or the best fixation, one can make using ropes. Therefore, if on luxury yachts or on racing boats, halyard, sheet or trim line will be spliced.

Looking at them, they seem to be made with secret knowledge that one would not dare to do themselves. But splicing has been and still is a manual technique, which means knowledge, but also training. This is what the book is about, to help the interested reader to learn without too much effort. An enclosed video shows the different options, step by step.

From the contents

The author shows all kind of variations, which makes sense in practical life, and shall give the reader the opportunity to become an expert.

• Rigging – construction, material, technical terms
• Splicing tools
• Basic skills
• Splicing of easy ropes without core
• Splicing of modern ropes with core
• Data of material and comparative figures
• Dimension of sheets and halyards
• DVD included