Continuous line splice on roller furling

[Lance Jones]

In short, mine came undone. How difficult is it to re-splice?

[Jim Hardesty]

Lance,
Without knowing what type of line, I can't really say.  Do you want to know how to splice it?  Then find out and do it.  Lots of information on the web and books.  Knowing that it will be time consuming, but I find doing my own very satisfying.  Also, if the line has been loaded and used, braided line won't splice well.  As a temporary fix I have seen sewing the lines together with or without whipping worked well.
Jim

[Ken Juul]

What I do is print out the instructions from this site.

http://www.neropes.com/SplicingGuideChoice.aspx

Sampson Ropes also has a good site.  Then I google, bunch of good splicing vids on U Tube.  Watch the vids and compare the instructions until I have a good handle on what I'm doing. 

Did my first double braid eye splices this weekend.  The end to end is supposed to be one of the advanced splices.  Might want to buy some extra line and practice on some short pieces.

[Lance Jones]

I found a good video on You Tube. He makes it look sooooo easy. I've done SOME splicing in my life but, I'll practice on the old line... Any suggestions as to what type and how much new line to purchase?

[Steve McGill]

Lance,

I replaced and re-spliced mine last year, I followed what is in the "Tech Notes" the suggested size and instructions were crystal clear. It is listed in the May 2010. I do not recall who to give the credit to as I first read it in the Main Sheet. As someone on this site frequently mentions those Tech Notes have a wealth of information.

Good luck

Steve

[Ron Hill]

Lance : You didn't mention it, but it's for the Hood 915 continuous furling line? 
The type of splice that you want is an end to end constant diameter splice.

I had to make that splice long ago and found out that most riggers don't know how to make this splice.  As Ken mentioned that only place that I found it then was at Sampson Ropes.

Mine turned out OK, but it wasn't the prettiest of splices.  I used new 7/16" Dacron line.

Good Luck with your splice.

[Stephen Butler]

Did ours last summer and it was not at all difficult.  Sampson had the clearest directions, at least for us, so we followed these to the letter .  We did 2 practice splices and the final product was very acceptable.  Good luck.

[Lance Jones]

Thanks all! This is what I wound up following. Very good instructions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpyhS7WEWSE

[Lance Jones]

  Woo hoo. Fairly easy and done!