asym rigging

[Bob Pingel]

A grommet is a continuous circular loop -- two ends of piece of rope are spliced to each other.

Expanding on my point of potentially not having enough length to do a conventional eye splice on each end, say you use 1/4" Amsteel for the short line. A conventional brummel eye splice, like the one on NE Ropes, calls for a bury length of at least 72 diameters (and prefereably a bit more). This would mean a bury length of 72 * .25, or 18". So, you would have say 2 2" eyes, 2 1" brummels, and 2 18" buries -- leaving you with a minimum length of about 42" -- probably longer than what you want.

To shorten things up, you can either just do one splice -- the end-for-end grommet splice -- resulting in a continuous loop, a grommet. Or, you need to lessen the length of the required buries -- by doing multiple brummels you can get by with a shorter bury length.

Your best bet is to get Brion's splicing field guide, the only place I know of where either of these splices are documented.

Good luck,

Bob