Learn to Splice Rope: Continuous Control Lines - Sailing Chandlery

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February 15, 2025 1 min read

Learn How to Make Continuous Control Lines with Sailing Chandlery

In this series of videos the team at Sailing Chandlery are going to show you how to splice ropes for your boat.

In the next 3 videos we'll show you:

  1. How to create a dyneema eye splice in a 12 strand dyneema rope
  2. How to add a taper to a sheet rope 
  3. How to make continuous control lines for your dinghy (see below)

This third video shows you how to create continuous control lines for you boat, in this instance we are using 5mm Kingfisher Evolution Breeze rope.

Rope Splicing Tools We Used

Creating Continuous Control Lines Instructional Video

Rope Splicing Service

Want your ropes spliced for you?

Here at Sailing Chandlery we offer a full splicing, tapering and rigging service - just send us your requirements and we can get your ropes prepared for your dinghy in our usual speedy way.

Questions?

If you have any questions on any of the rope splicing tools we've shown in the video, or the technique for tapering your sailing ropes then please get in touch.



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