

For mooring, towlines, and other long term or critical applications, seven tucks are recommended. Modern synthetic materials, however, tend to be slippery and, now, a minimum of five complete tucks is required. That would self equalise with use, and look very clean. Important: The Eye Splice and its variants are well described by Ashley (ABOK 2725, p 445). This version of the Brummel only requires access to one end of the rope being spliced and is intended for 12 strand single/hollow braid ropes made with polyester or nylon, such as our Static-12 and Static-12DS lines. For the double head i thought that they either did a friction hitch because it can't slip over the other ring, or another piece of tenex, same size, splice ring on, cut shorter, placed the core of the long one inside the shorter one (2nd ring), and then bury the tail of the 2nd ring inside the first. I would do some tight siezing by the ring, i don't know why that fell out of style as a way to snug up to a ring or thimble. I would think that you would do the ring first, mobius brummel (in the riggers apprentice) looks like what everyone is using. I'm sure you have seen this, but it's all the Samson splicing pdfs in one spot.

The key to using this simple splice is to make sure that you use a lock stitch. An eye is formed into the rope and the tail is buried into the standing part. Yet the concept of a low-friction ring goes back hundreds of years the humble deadeye. We often hear about trickle-down technology from the top echelons of yacht racing, but it’s not often you’ll find a modern take on an ancient idea on board a carbon-fibre race boat, let alone a cruising yacht. Sydney Rigging Specialists use Brummel Lock Eye wherever possible because it is our belief that they add a bit more safety factor into the splice. Brummel Lock Splice for low friction rings. This is a simple, all-purpose eye retains 90-100 of average new rope strength. This type of splicing is made by creating an eye in a single braid core with a non-slip lock.

However i bet it can be figured out anyways, it's just rope, and 12 strand at that. A simplier eye splice is the Samson 12-strand Class II eye splice. I've only seen them online and in videos, so hopefully someone far more knowledgeable will chime in.
