Easy SPLICING: How to do a Brummel Splice around a Shackle [Capable Cruising]

Expert rope work is the hallmark of a competent sailor. Knots will get you through, but there's nothing like being able to splice your own lines to make you feel like a true sailor.

Burying the tail of parallel-core, double-braid line can be quite a challenge. But putting a good splice in single braid is actually quite easy! In this video Emily demonstrates how to do just put a mobius brummel splice around a shackle.

This splice doesn't take much longer then tying a knot, and for slippery lines like polypropylene, it's sometimes the only way to make an eye that doesn't pull out.

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IN THIS EPISODE
Intro [00:00]
What is a splice? [00:25]
How this splice works [01:39]
Tools [03:55]
Measuring things up [05:02]
Starting the splice [05:35]
Burying the tail [07:57]
Tapering the tail [12:22]
Finishing [13:35]
Review [14:41]
Our favorite book [15:44]
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[jeffery]

The best way to become an expert is to TEACH. You are well on your way as you can explain everything you are doing and why for us un-initiated. Great job!

[matthewomalley]

You have a great teaching style, you make what you’re doing easy to follow and understand.
Thank you! 😊

[bobuncle]

I think I’m going to have to get the book and the tool. I can see a whole bunch of uses for the tool.

Once again, an excellent instructional video. Thanks for another fantastic episode.

[MY_SOLACE]

Wow, you are amazing. Great teaching skills. My kids 10, 15 & 16 love your videos. ❤

[mikedurakovich]

Wow, that was a lot easier than I had envisioned. Thanks!

[mannihh]

Wonderful tutorial - easy to follow step-by-step instructions, well done. Thanks for showing.

[jefffoley]

Love you guys. Keep telling me stuff I think I already know. A man who thinks he knows everything is a fool. A wise man can learn from a fool but a fool learns from no one

[LanceRyley]

this is a very well done video. the only thing I do differently is that my taper is longer - usually bunch the standing dyneema all the way to the knot and then take strands out every 3 or 4 and cut them off before tapering the end. This becomes more important if you want to keep the dyneema closer to the line diameter, which helps if it passes through a block or bullseye. There is also a pretty neat way to do a brummel if you only have one end to work with, but you can't put it around a thimble or shackle. The other thing you might add if you do another brummel video is the importance of the locking part going through the working end and not back through the standing part - if it goes through the standing part it *will* pull out.

[digitalcanvas]

Emily. Good instruction. Easy to understand video. There's something about you that's fun watch. Maybe because you seem genuine and unrehearsed. Thank you.

[DanielMikell-qywq]

I learned a splice today from a bargain store dock line with loops at both ends for $1! It has a bury but it's not a brummel. The splicing needle pierces the braid, the the working end goes around the standing end and loops back across itself and immediately starts the bury by entering the original exit hole. When dressed it locks the buried splice with and overhand knot. I'm not sure how long the bury needs to be, but the rope that I found is slick 16 strand hollow braid 3/8" yellow polypropyline "ski" rope . The loops are 5", the overhand lock is 1" and the bury is 6". Not quite as smooth as your mobius but it's fast.

[anthonyelyas]

Best mobius splice demo i have seen!!!

[than]

Hello Emily and Clark---Another nice video here. I wished I had seen this back in 1996 when I was replacing my very heavy 3/8 galvanized wire standing rigging with Dyneema, when it was really expensive! What I did, after considerable guesswork, was to perform the 6 strand pass through (as you started) and then, because I did not know anything, was to stitch stitch, stich with dacron waxed thread and then (because I am so afraid of UV damage) fully serve the whole thing with black seine twine and then paint black, (more UV protection). That's my current standing rigging on my gaff cutter. Your solution is much more elegant, but all my sins are covered with my black seine twine serving....lol. Ted

PS I've taken my boat to the Wooden Boat Show in port Townsend several times, and Brian and Pete and John and Mike would visit and talk and I would listen. Brian Toss was a national treasure. Sorely missed.

[chuckklima]

I believe that is a regular brummel splice, which is used when you have both ends available. The mobius brummel is slightly different, and is used when you only have one end available.

[VentureOffroadAustraliax]

I loved your learn 5 knots video and now I love this splice video too. You explain things in an easy to understand way and have taught me some very useful skills. Thanks

[johnmajewski]

Refreshing clear tutorial it helps to have a woman’s explanation, as the small details are not glossed over.

[martintremblay]

Thumbs up, please make more of these!

[johnpalmer]

Good video! It is channels like yours that make me keep coming back to YT… hopefully you won’t be forced off by all the changes Google sure making to YT in their efforts to making it better (ie more profitable)…

[vanseventy]

I’d say you have done this a few times! Nice work!! Hanks for the tutorial!!!

[michaelcarlson]

I learned in the Coast Guard how to do different splices and line types and now I use it with my Spectra hollow sliceable fishing line to make repairs and to add line when it breaks while fishing.

[jadams]

Fantastic demo ! Thanks for a really well presented video.