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  • 30 Oct 2011 13:35
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    Barry & Meps / Stellrecht & Schulte wrote: No, look more carefully at the web page, and ignore the bit about the velcro.  Here's the way you use it:
    1. You start with an 8 inch piece of high-tech line that has a tiny eye on one end and a stopper (diamond knot) on the other end.
    2. You string it through two things like you would with a metal shackle (eye on sheet, ring on sail, in this case), then open up the eye enough to slide it over the diamond knot.
    3. You pull it tight so that the eye won't go over the knot anymore, and the shackle is locked "closed"
    Pretty slick looking to me.
    Went back for another look. Ya, I hadn't realized you could slip the eye open and closed repeatedly.

    Yer rite, dat's slicker dan snot.

    The homemade copper pipe fid gets the MD! Seal of Approval too.  ;-)
  • 30 Oct 2011 00:45
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    Barry & Meps / Stellrecht & Schulte wrote:
    Alan "Maddog!" MacBride wrote:Did you notice that the eye splice has to be made onto the clew ring in situ? If all you really want is a loop, (with velcro stabilizer,) why not just splice a loop in the double braid?

    Thought no.2 Why not braid a longer loop and sling it onto the clew ring? That could be braided anywhere and slipped over the ring.

    Whoa there, Nellie. Isn't the purpose of the shackle so you can pack the sail without the sheets? How do you get that thing off the clew ring?
    No, look more carefully at the web page, and ignore the bit about the velcro.  Here's the way you use it:
    1. You start with an 8 inch piece of high-tech line that has a tiny eye on one end and a stopper (diamond knot) on the other end.
    2. You string it through two things like you would with a metal shackle (eye on sheet, ring on sail, in this case), then open up the eye enough to slide it over the diamond knot.
    3. You pull it tight so that the eye won't go over the knot anymore, and the shackle is locked "closed"
    Pretty slick looking to me.

    They've got it, Dog.  You can open it up and take it back off any time you want to.  Probably doesn't rust up like an allegedly stainless steel shackle does, either. ;-}

    OTOH, I did learn the scaffold hitch darn near immediately.  If I want to learn that double carrick bend with the bitter ends stuffed up its whoozis I'd better free up the rest of the winter.
  • 29 Oct 2011 15:13
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    Alan "Maddog!" MacBride wrote:Did you notice that the eye splice has to be made onto the clew ring in situ? If all you really want is a loop, (with velcro stabilizer,) why not just splice a loop in the double braid?

    Thought no.2 Why not braid a longer loop and sling it onto the clew ring? That could be braided anywhere and slipped over the ring.

    Whoa there, Nellie. Isn't the purpose of the shackle so you can pack the sail without the sheets? How do you get that thing off the clew ring?
    No, look more carefully at the web page, and ignore the bit about the velcro.  Here's the way you use it:
    1. You start with an 8 inch piece of high-tech line that has a tiny eye on one end and a stopper (diamond knot) on the other end.
    2. You string it through two things like you would with a metal shackle (eye on sheet, ring on sail, in this case), then open up the eye enough to slide it over the diamond knot.
    3. You pull it tight so that the eye won't go over the knot anymore, and the shackle is locked "closed"
    Pretty slick looking to me.
  • 29 Oct 2011 05:40
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    Barry & Meps / Stellrecht & Schulte wrote:The Soft Shackle looks like a pretty simple thing to make, and I always like using rope over metal where I can.  The example of attaching a jib sheet isn't going to go far on Flutterby!

    Has anybody tried this, or do you want to?


    Barry

    Interesting bit of marlinspike. The Diamond Knot appears to be a Carrick Hitch with the bitter ends passed back through the center. I know how to tie it, the Carrick Hitch, but I've never found a need for it. The Scaffold Hitch that was presented here a few weeks ago, on the other hand, was immediately useful.

    Did you notice that the eye splice has to be made onto the clew ring in situ? If all you really want is a loop, (with velcro stabilizer,) why not just splice a loop in the double braid?

    Thought no.2 Why not braid a longer loop and sling it onto the clew ring? That could be braided anywhere and slipped over the ring.

    Whoa there, Nellie. Isn't the purpose of the shackle so you can pack the sail without the sheets? How do you get that thing off the clew ring?
  • 29 Oct 2011 03:20
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    The Soft Shackle looks like a pretty simple thing to make, and I always like using rope over metal where I can.  The example of attaching a jib sheet isn't going to go far on Flutterby!

    Has anybody tried this, or do you want to?


    Barry
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