Melinda, This is what I did: Two boat length pieces of 1/2" three strand nylon (although I rarely let out more than a half boat length - depends on the wind etc.) with an eye splice and HD galvanized thimble on each, one large shackle to join them, a smaller shackle to join the large shackle to the Devils Claw. Use lanolin on all shackle pins and they will come apart when they are worn out and rusted. Safety wire all pins if you like -do not use stainless wire - it will cause the shackle to corrode faster. I used a punch to deform the pin at he exit of the thread to keep it from turning. I used 5/8" clear PVC hose (I understand there can be problem using this material, but I did not experience any)for chafe guard with small stuff to tie them off to the nylon. Sometimes in shallow water and little wind the hook would disengage, at those times I would just shorten the bridle to get the chain hook off the bottom.
Hope this is of some help. Philip On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 05:40 -0700, Melinda Carver wrote: > Philip, > > I would be interested to learn how you made your bridle. I am in process of > converting one rode to all chain.... > > Thanks, > Melinda -- Philip Lange AE4OV USSV ORYOKI _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
