Modern rope splicing instructions for braided ropes, splicing book, including DVD for professional rope connections

This holds: splicing ropes like a pro

A splice not only looks elegant and nautical, but also has a significantly higher breaking strength than a knot. Modern braided rope must be spliced ​​to maintain full performance at the joints and attachment points. Therefore, sheets, halyards, and trim lines are always spliced ​​on both luxury yachts and performance-optimized racing boats.

To ensure that proper splicing does not remain a secret science, Egmont M. Friedl, rigging professional and Germany's best-known rope and splicing expert, will show you all the variations that occur in practice:

• Rope science: constructions, materials, strengths, technical terms
• Splicing tools and basic skills: core extraction, working with the splicing needle, tapering, back-milking
• Splicing of single braided rope without core made of Dyneema and other high modulus fibers: eye splices, connecting splices, self-locking Brummel splices, loops, rope shackles, soft shackles, modern lashing
• Splicing of double braided ropes, core-sheath ropes: eye splices, endless splices, all high modulus fiber splices with Dyneema, Spectra, Vectran, etc., tapering, sheathing
• Data on materials and comparative values, dimensioning of sheets and halyards for sailboats and yachts
• Table of all splice lengths

Learn to splice more easily with the DVD

Splicing is a craft. To master it, you need to be able to see exactly how the work is done. That's why the extensively illustrated book also includes a DVD demonstrating the execution of the splicing work and the correct use of the splicing tools. This makes all splices even easier to learn.

The splicing of modern braided lines is completely different from the splicing of traditional, twisted rope. With modern kernmantle ropes, strands are not braided together; instead, the core and sheath ends are drawn back internally so that they pinch under load, creating a maximally secure, break-resistant, and durable connection. Correct and precise execution of the work is crucial to achieving a professional result. With the instructions from Egmont M. Friedl, himself a skipper, trained boat builder, and former professional climber, you too can become an expert!