New and improved double soft shackle

[Dan Lehman]

Allen, yes, BINGO! --that's it, with the added nicety of the
eye holding it to the ring. Would it be possible for this to be
as shown (attached to clew), and then it's a an action of passing
the eye-end through the sheets and then lassoing the clew-side
stopper?

Your emphasis for speed is what I'm missing:

you can fasten it to the sheets ahead of time and then very quickly attach it to the clew ring.

In the OP structure, what I saw was
- pre-tied piece w/stopper on clew;
- then the connecting piece, which needs to sometime
be reeved through the sheets & lassoing that side's stopper,
- and finally connected by the opposite end's eye lassoing
the clew piece's stopper.

And this OP structure was double-strength through the sheets,
but going single-strength to connect to the clew piece; so, I'm
looking for a way to have it double throughout.

I'm *knottically*, not nautically inclined, so pardon my ineptness
to understand well your context, but I'm thinking simply that if you
can reeve the right-side eye through those two red sheets and
then connect eye-to-stopper there,
can THIS act be the entire one? --and using an arrangement as
you've just presented (which might be set on the clew vice the grey
rope), the reeving and lassoing are done through the sheets and
no further connection is wanting? --and you have doubled material
throughout, to boot.
Granted, that isn't as simple-quick as ONLY lassoing the already
connected-to-two-red-sheets piece by lassoing the grey stopper;
but you've done this "already connected..." step sometime.

The only (dubious) thing I can think of to match your quickness
is having two eyes,
the tails of each leading to be joined in the stopper knot,
and the bight between the eyed having itself and eye, to lasso
the stopper through the sheets; this leave then the double-eyes
(reeved through each other ?!) to lasso, in one fell soup, the clew's
stopper knot. The "dubious" assessment comes from the need
here to be so precisely measured for balance to the now two small
eyes connecting pieces --their interreeving being a move to try to
achieve this balance (and make the structure without an *order*
to their attachment --as they jointly attach (vs. one closer, other
farther, from the choked clew stopper).
And "dubious" is the assurance of such intertwined small eyes
gripping and not being pulled around the stopper knot (as each
will have one strand of the other inside its eye).
("too clever by half" comes to mind ... )


--dl*
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