I learned splicing from a book: my first few weren't pretty, but after a few
end-splices and
eye-splices, I felt confident enough to splice an
eye-splice around a huge lakefront tree—using an old
manila mooring line we'd just replaced.
The line turned out to be just the right length to secure the wood panels removed from the family's homemade dock for the winter.
When I later short-spliced a matched set of
four large mooring lines from
nylon—even accounting for the size of the eye, and the "lost" part of the splice itself—they
all turned out on the short side!
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Originally Posted by NHBUOY
And the clove hitch.  |
The
clove hitch and the
bowline can be learned quickly and can handle most tasks around the lake. The clove hitch is
not to be used long-term.
The bowline is tricky, but once you've got the first and last lines parallel, you're done!
The item I was searching for has been sold out—
maybe for good—but here's a different solution to "dockline managment"—
from YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGUd..._embedded#t=0s