This was easy to put together after some internet advice. Has done a nice job so far and is a breeze to take on and off.
I think I will go without the loops and stay with bitter ends on mine.
We had Parks at Hopkins-Carter (active member here) make one that is 100% to our spec and it is great. Not expensive either. He does the braiding himself (probably while he watches Grey's Anatomy) and really did a fine job. He gave us options, sent pictures, and was very helpful in helping us get what we wanted.
I think I will go without the loops and stay with bitter ends on mine.
Dave, I can't quite tell from the pictures what you did there. I can see you have a spliced loop on either end, an eye with a thimble in the middle and the center part of the line is wrapped around a rubber snubber but I can't tell how you spliced or incorporated that eye in the middle?
Its made of two lengths of line. The first one is longer, has a spliced eye on one end, is wrapped around the rubber snubber and then has a thimble eye on the end to attach the hook. The second length is shorter. It has the spliced eye on one end and then is spliced into the longer length to create the "V"
Thanks Dave, that makes perfect sense.
Dave ...so I get this right. One side of the bridle wraps around the snubber then connects to the hook. The other side just connects directly to the hook to form the V.
If so...why only one side "snubbed"?
Personally I'd lose (and lost) the rubber snubber. 3 strand line serves well enough.
No, look at the example in the pdf. Its Hook, snubber and then it splits to two sides.
I made a bridle years ago to this same configuration and used all metal to metal connections. It served me well for years on my 48' Offshore Yacht Fisher.Here is what we opted for; 2x15' 3-strand (loops on end) with thimbles to shackle to standard chain hook...... I also wanted no rope-to-metal connections. they are all metal-to-metal.