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EYE SPLICES (MULTI-STRAND LOOPS)

for a length equal to the round of the eye. Form the eye with the

two ends which are still laid up together. The odd strand is then laid

back around the eye into its own score but in the direction contrary

to its original lay. Stick the three ends, as indicated by the arrows

. in the diagram, and back the strands as previously directed.

2759. The RIGGER'S LASHING EYE is stuck as the SAILOR'S EYE

SPLICE Uh 7 2 5). It is employed on footropes, bobstay collars, top-

gallant sheet blocks, etc. Eleven lays of the rope are allowed for the

eye, which is stuck once and one half only, the ends are tapered and

scraped and the whole is served over with spun yarn. A lanyard,

half the size of the rope, is eye spliced into it.

2760. A HAWSER EYE is often very large, suitable for throwing

over posts and piles. Stick as EYE SPLICE ~ 2725, and tuck twice full.

Leave the strands long, divide the ends and cross whip them. Some-

qrnes they are whipped twice at intervals of a few inches apart.

2761. A CABLE EYE for a mooring is made in exactly the same way

but the cable has a reverse lay. The three ropes of the cable are

tucked exactly as if they were the three strands of an ordinary rope.

2762. A HAWSER THIMBLE EYE. Stick the strands once full, divide

them and tuck them once, one half. Divide the remaining halves,

worm a part, tease the remainder, parcel, marl and serve over all.

2763. A CABLE EYE. Open the cable and form an eye similar to

~2745, but employing the three ropes of the cable for strands. Take

the rope end indicated in the first illustration, open it into its three

strands (a cable consists of three three-strand ropes), stick one of

these strands (which is one ninth of the whole cable) under the rope

indicated in the first diagram. From each of the other two rope ends

layout one strand. Worm these three strands up the cable. This

leaves six strands which are now opened, combed out, scraped,

teased, parceled, marled, tarred and served over.

2764. The ROPEMAKER'S EYE. In the ropewalk an eye is formed

in a cable, while it is being made, by doubling a long rope in the

middle and laying it up with a single rope of half its length. A long

end is left in the single rope end, and an eye is formed in this end,

which is laid parallel with the eye that is formed in the bight of the

long rope.

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The eye in the single rope is made in this manner: The rope is

opened and the strands stuck as illustrated. Half of each strand is

wormed and the remainder is scraped, teased and marled over. The

whole eve is then served with small stuff. A thimble is seized in and

a shackl~ is put through the thimble. The eye is used in the inboard

end of a cable.

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