In this bonus episode of Sailing A B Sea Aannsha walks you through the whole process of how to splice rope to make a snubber. We like redundancy with most th...

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Today I'm going to make a snubber. We've

already got one but we like to have

redundancy so I'm going to make a second

one today and I'm recording it because a

couple of subscribers have asked to see

how I actually do splicing.

This end goes

through and around the cleat. This end

gets attached to the anchor chain and

we let out enough anchor chain so that

this whole rope becomes tight but it's

got flexibility and that takes the

weight and the strain of the windlass.

So what I'll be using today are obviously

the rope, a rubber stretchy thing that

feeds through and around the rope to

give it a bit of give. I'm going to be

using on one end a metal thimble, some

different coloured electrical tape, two

different colors of waxed whipping, a

tool to help actually push the line

through itself and some scissors.

And the final bit we'll use these two pieces which

I'll show when I've finished actually making the snubber.

Two ends! So on

one end I'm going to make a loop that is

big enough to go over the cleat and the

other end is where I'm going to attach

the thimble.

So I'll start with the cleat end first

That's going to be the loop for the

cleat and that is going to be what I'm

going to feed through here.

Okay so I've done quite a few, you only

have to do one two three four five

lots of threading but I had extra and

because it's actually holding the boat

the whole boat's weight I thought because

I've got the extra I will I'd just a few

extra. The important thing is to keep to

really tighten it as you go

So that's what neat

So I'm going to cut these quite short

and then I'll just burn the ends so that

they will fuse together. Some people just

cut them and leave them but I'd rather

see the end fused. And then I'm

going to use some whipping and I'm just

going to whip around this part here

which is the front of the loop

Wow, great job Baz.

This end is going to have a metal thimble and that

eventually be attached like this ... put

that onto the anchor chain. So I've

learned to give myself five lengths of this

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Tie this tight.

Eventually that is going to go like this.

Feed this into here

Take this top one

put it into the top line ... here

And make it really tight

Then take the second one

And put it under the next one

Then this third one goes under this...

- goes over that - and under that

And then it's just over and under

over under

You want to keep the integrity of the rope

And this one is over and under

Just get it really tight

one two three four five

so I'll keep going because I've got

plenty more

So that's really firmly in

Fabulous! Look at that

So all I need to do now is cut the ends

and burn them like I did with this one

And then all

I've got to do is whipping just to just

to be sure to be sure.

So we have got our

end that goes around cleat and we have

got the thimble that is going to be attached to this and that will hook onto the

anchor chain and now all I'm going to do

is I'm going to take some whipping - this

is blue waxed whipping it's one

millimetre, you can get different thicknesses

and stuff and I'm just going to bind the

two ends with the whipping just to make

it more secure

So make a little loop

I'm gonna bind it just about here where

the the other whipping is, where the join

is so I'm gonna start here

I think the important thing with whipping

is that it's tight

All right

I'm happy with that

So I'm gonna cut end and feed it through the loop

I'm gonna pull this

so I've fed it through the loop and I'm

pulling this end and this end is pulling

this end through.

So there's that one whipped

And there's that one. Not bad for an amateur!

I'm happy with it.

And so this now, Barry will attach this with

seizing wire and probably some Loctite

but this will go around here

Like this. So this end goes through

and around the cleat

this end gets attached to the anchor chain

and we let out enough anchor chain so

that this whole rope becomes tight but

it's got flexibility and that takes the

weight and the strain of the windlass

There you have it, a snubber