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2765. "ADMIRAL THE HON. SIR GEORGE ELLIOT'S EYE," as it was

called by Biddlecomb (1848), was later called "ELLIOT'S EYE." The

cable is opened for a considerable length and stopped. Two of the rope

ends are "short long spliced" together; the ends, after half knotting,

are tucked but once. The single rope end is carefully chalk-marked

to show where it is to be spliced, in order to exactly parallel the eye

already made. The eye is formed and tucked twice only. The two

eyes are clapped together and stopped. A smaller rope is laid into

the score between the two eyes. The ends of this are cut and butted

and the eye is ringbolt hitched (~3605) with small rope. The eye

2HS is made a little larger than the oval thimble used and is seized in.

It is used on the outboard end of a cable and is the eye that is

shackled to the anchor.

2766. A FORK SPLICE WITH LASHING EYES. Open a four-strand

rope into a fork of two legs. At a short distance from the crotch

form eyes in each of the two forks at the same length and seize

them in with a racking seizing. Lay the ends back again to the fork,

which makes two legs of four strands each. Stick the ends at the

crotch as in SPLICE ~2752. Tuck over and under, once full, once one

half and once one quarter. Taper and scrape the ends and serve over

the whole structure with spun yarn. The back and front are alike.

2767. The following is similar but neater. After forming one of

2766 the eyes lead only one strand back to the fork. The other end is

tucked and backed as in REEVING EYE SPLICE ~2747. At the fork

each end is stuck under one strand and is then backed and tapered.

The whole structure is served over with spun yarn or marline or,

if very large, with small stuff. By means of this splice a stay is

secured by lashing the two eyes together around the mast with a

small lanyard, which is first spliced through one of the eyes.

2768. COLLAR AND EYE or FORESTAY EYE, also called MOUSE AND

COLLAR. At an early date the "MOUSE" was raised with spun yarn.

But Admiral Luce, in 1866, says that parceling has been "found

sufficient for the purpose." So raise your MOUSE firmly and sym-

metrically by either method and graft the whole structure over

2767

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