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Traditional chain splice

The traditional chain splice is popular with

sailors extending the scope of their anchor chain
with rope to avoid carrying extra weight of chain. A

conventional eye splice (with or without a thimble) is
usually too bulky to fit on the anchor winch, but a

long splice hardly bulks out the line at all.

1 Seize the line and tease the strands apart, allowing about 40 times the

diameter of each line for the splice. In this case, 40 × ⅜in = 15in (40 ×

1cm = 40cm).