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Admiralty eye splice: a wire splice generally considered adequate for normal industrial usage, the
main feature of which is that after the first tuck, all strands are tucked away in an ‘over one, under
one’ sequence, against the lay of the standing part.

figure 1

There are also various ways of completing the first full tuck, the most common of which is in the
strand order of 1–6–2–3–5–4.

First establish the size of the eye and apply a seizing accordingly. Then unlay the strands to the

required length, ensuring that they are in the correct order. The illustration (figure 1) shows the
relative positions of the tucking strands to the standing part. The heart is always associated with
strand 1, which is the first to be tucked and which is worked from left to right, over one and under

one, with the standing part to the right. A marline spike or hollow splicing tool is used to separate the
strands for tucking. After strand 1 has been tucked and hauled tight the heart can be cut out. Strand 6 is
then tucked, also from left to right and also in an over one, under one sequence, and hauled tight.
Strand 2 is worked from right to left, going around the same strand of the standing part as strand 6, but
as it is progressing in the opposite direction it provides a locking turn when the strand is hauled tight.

Strand 3 is worked from right to left, as is the next strand (5), but this strand breaks the established
over and under sequence by being tucked under two strands initially. The final strand, 4, follows the
previous strand (5) but reverts to the sequence of over one and under one, emerging between the two

strands of the standing part that strand 5 had been tucked under. This completes the first tuck, and you