Are DIY LIFELINES Hard to Make? | ep. 177

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[svruleofhonor]

Service and a new spoondrifter video winning!!!

[scottswineford]

I learned to make up a variety of cordage young, of various types and have recently learned to do some dynema. Smaller stuff like you're using has always been a struggle at best, often a failure. You've done beautiful Skill like that will make you very popular in most anchorages.

[suefletcher]

Great job Tammy, you and your family are so talented.

[rows]

For those suggesting turnbuckles, No, No, No!!
In an emergency you may need to remove the lifelines; undoing turnbuckles will almost certainly require tools (especially if they've not been adjusted for some time). A lashing can just be cut with a knife. A centuries old solution for very good reason 😁😁.
Excellent workmanship!! Only suggestion would be to aquire some dyneema shears, kitchen scissors blunt very quickly!! 😜

[beachplumb]

Good way not to lose tools overboard is to hang an open umbrella upside down beneath the area you’re working on. Another tip: I don’t own a hot knife for cutting synthetic rope, so I heat the blade of a putty knife with my soldering torch (I suppose a cigarette lighter would work as well), then press through the rope onto a sacrificial scrap of wood. Clean cut, no fraying.

[pmnfernando]

those loops are called thimbles. for synthetic rigging is best pratice to buy close eye thimbles are they form a complete loop. when you place load on them they do not collapse like the open ones which might lead to chafe. the taper is actually the most important step (apart from the brummel lock) . when under tension (a lot of tension) the splice never breaks at the loop (actually, at the loop it has 200% of the breaking strenght)it breaks a couple inches below the end of the taper, because thats the area where there is a transition between having material (the tail) and no material. the smoother that transition the better. you can always measure a bigger tail (knowing that because of that the final length of line will decrease) in order to spread the taper over a bigger area. minimum is 50 times the diameter of the rope

[teddytheyorkielowellpenner]

Why not use turnbuckles for tightening up the life line ?

[jimcub]

Try taping the rope before you cut it stops it fraying
Would a turnbuckle be better to retention the safety rope

[davidwarnes]

You have the dynema lifelines but do they have the lifejackets to book onto the lazy lines, coz the stations will fail,

[lorijudd]

Howdy!
I can help your daughter with Denali and her training needs.
Getting a little dog to obey is essential to keeping that dog alive onboard the boat.
I sent you an email. Respond and I will send training tricks and tips.
Love watching all your boat work.
Good job!!

[Bantie]

use a cigarette lighter to melt the end of the dyneema

[thestorminmymind]

Oh that flipping cow bell continously which is as loud or louder than your voices is crazy, I've said it once before but it makes these videos unwatchable