SPLICING FOR YACHTS COURSE AIMS:
Our splicing & rope work course will help you splice like a pro and service your yacht winches.
“Splicing & Ropework” is one of our home-grown courses that our instructors have written and developed over the last 2 decades. You will learn multiple whipping & splicing techniques of various different types of rope plus how to rivet and how to service your winches.
COURSE DURATION
1 day (0915 to 1645)
This course content can also be found within our Yacht Maintenance Week
WHAT IS COVERED IN THE ROPE SPLICING COURSE?
A mixture of classroom and hands on training covering:
- Types of Rope
- Common whipping
- Sailmaker’s whipping
- Single braid eye splice (bitter end)
- Single braid eye splice (standing end)
- Double braid eye splice
- Dyneema soft shackle
- 3 strand eye splice
- 3 strand end splice
- 3 strand short splice
- Winch servicing
ROPE SPLICING PRE REQUISTES
None. However some practical experience of sailing or using ropes and a basic knowledge of boats is useful.
INCLUDED
- Day of training & use of winches etc.
- Use of tools for splicing, whipping, riveting etc.
- Soft shackle and eye splice to take away
- CT Splicing handbook
- CT Splicing & Ropework Certificate (PDF sent by email following the course)
- Tea & Coffee
- Parking
NOT INCLUDED
- Lunch
- Handbook
TEACHING RATIO
We have self imposed a limitation of 8 students on this course. However we will run the course with as few as 2 students. Each student has use of their own set of fids, needles and palm. Winch servicing is done in pairs.
WHY USE CHIEFTAIN TRAINING FOR THE SPLICING FOR YACHTS COURSE?
Nearly 20 years ago our Principal dreamt up the 1-day “Yacht Rigging & Rope Splicing Course.” and with the help of an experienced rigger produced a syllabus and lesson plans. Over the years the course has developed and our focus has moved from rigging techniques (which still required the services of a specailist) to splicing techniques that yacht owners and crew will be able to do onboard. In recent times our competitors have looked at our website and pinched both our old course title and our old advertised course syllabus. Of course it takes more than a cut and paste to match our product, while they try to emulate what we were doing last year we continue to improve the product and set the gold standard.