Splicing Advice -- Dyneema

[S/V Antares]

If you intend to splice Dynema ...invest in the proper set of fids....You will be very glad you did!

[Cadence]

Originally Posted by transmitterdan

In my experience the cheap stuff is much harder to splice than the real dyneema 12 strand single braid. If you need to practice just use a short piece of the real stuff. You can de-splice it and re-splice many times without damaging the line.

I believe I was speaking of lacing it. The video showing how to do it like Chinese handcuffs was enlightening.

[Dockhead]

Update to this old thread.


I found that the large low friction eyes, through which the sheets ran, generated too much friction under the very high loads this system generated.


Last year I experimentally replaced one of the eyes with a high load Selden block, and ran one sheet through that.


It's much better.


I'm redoing my twings this year and will use blocks instead of eyes to run the sheets through.


The other gripe I have with my system was that the 10mm poly double braid for the control lines was too stretchy. I was surprised at that considering the triple purchase, but the loads are enormous.


So I'm replacing the control lines with dyneema.