Splicing Nuts

[cpedw]

I just came across these. I am impressed: smarter than I can manage to splice and, for applications where the rope passes through a block near its end, it won't get jammed by the tapering splice.
But I would like a version for 12mm braidline. Does anyone know if that exists, or something that does a similar job for such a size?
Derek

[Silkie]

I don't see any mention of safe working load.

[Nick]

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Silkie asks:

Where does the dream come from?

Some say it's the statins

[Aja]

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Silkie asks:

Where does the dream come from?

Some say it's the statins

Well my Simvastatin aint working then...

Donald

[Silkie]

I trust we are all familiar with the source of this quote?

Incidentally, I've just tried putting it into google and BlueMoment came up on the first page.

Apologies for the drift cpedw.

[cpedw]

Apologies for the drift cpedw.

I had to go elsewhere for a sensible answer. To precis, they are not much cop; a knot will be better.
Derek

[claymore]

Now that we have the dream and the Kollesterrull sorted (smart way of getting around what I have found to be a challenging spelling)- an observation about the Splicing nut.

I'll bet they hurt when they smack you in the eye.

[Silkie]

I trust we are all familiar with the source of this quote?

Can I take it then that we are not?

[Nick]

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Where does it come from then?

[Silkie]

Donald Ridler in Erik the Red, page one.

1. The Idea

To go across an ocean in a boat, to drop the anchor where the sea is sand-white and breaks on palm-blackened beaches, this is a wonderful thing. To go across an ocean in a sailing yacht without an engine, relying only on the force of the wind, the skill of one's arm and the cunning of one's brain, is surely still more wonderful. And for a man to do it in a yacht that he has built himself, must count among the greatest of his dreams and give him a feeling of fulfilment that can be won in no other way.

Perhaps. Perhaps it is only that a deed which is hard to understand seems greater than it is.

I have done this thing. Whether it is worth it, whether the dream turns to a shadow in the end, only time can tell. But if anyone has had this dream and wants it fulfilled, this is how one man fulfilled it.

Where does the dream come from?