Soft Shackles | Sailing Wisdom

Soft shackles can solve all your problems! This video will show you how to make your own using a small amount of Dyneema and a very easy to tie know.

[chrisgrable]

Actually just coiled up my hose in the yard, and thought "How can I hang up this hose?" And I heard Herbie's voice: "SOFT SHACKLE!"

[firoxlion]

Funny, this how I actually stumbled onto your channel, by looking up a video on dyneema splicing. Your rigging video's are really top knot-ch hah

[bzelarchannel]

Hi
Such a great Teacher, Melinda sent me the link to Learn more about Sailing, Thank you so much ❤

[rwbishop]

For 'quickie' soft shackles, I merely double a length of line & tie a double overhand using both ends. Then just form a Larks Head with the loop end, drop it over the knot... and Bobs your uncle.

Can be made in seconds, simple & can easily be made any length... I have no idea of it's ultimate strength, but it's not trivial by any means.

Cool videos, Thanks!

[bernardmichels]

took a little time to figure out what you were doing at the end...but wow way more easier than the way i was doing a different knot..thanks

[goneswimming]

Love this video! I am sharing with my son who is the sailing guru of the family

[MorozovYachts]

Thanks, very simple and practical method, much easy then classic splicing.

[PanzerDave]

3:00 When it (the soft shackle) gets loaded, it will stretch out. That sounds a lot like me. When I get loaded, I do less and less of what I had planned, and eventually stretch out in the cockpit, on the settee, or sometimes even on the dock box!

[melinda]

Thank you! You know I Love Turorials! Hope you have a great day!🙏🙏❤❤🇺🇸🇺🇸🤙🤙⛵⚓

[sellsidedream]

Thank you for giving me an idea of how to keep my 4 year old son occupied during lock down in HK

[ylemoine]

Love these kinds of helpful hints and tips. Well done and a great creative intro to the video. 👍 👌

[Steve-ulqb]

Thanks herby! Just made some. On my own 😂

[PetervanGinneken]

Love it. I am a sailing instructor and I think that next training session I am going to try and teach this to all my colleagues.

[richardbohlingsr]

Nicely explained and clearly shown. Much better than bronze hank-on's.

[DowneastThunderCreations]

Thanks for for the tip! Now I have another winter project to keep me busy!

[ericsirois]

That intro was awesome 😎 also, just made my first soft shackle

[stevenfeltner]

Love soft shackles. We have them in different diameters and lengths for different uses. We just put up new genoa sheets and used your integrated soft shackles instead of bulky bowline knots. Thanks for the great tutorial videos!

[drwindsurf]

This is a great how-to video - Thank you 😊👍

[sailingmoonshadow]

0:11 in danger of becoming a T&A (or should that be S&M!) channel there Herby 🤣.

Love the demo, I wanted to make a bunch of these for next year so that came just in time 👍

[reloadncharge]

Good one....will be replacing some steel shackles soon!