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splice. Each pair of strands is tied in an overhand knot, and the ends are tucked under the alternate strands opposite as in a short splice. The rope is, lastly, well stretched with tackle, and the projecting ends of the divided strands are cut off.

When a rope's end has to be spliced round a block or thimble, an Eye-splice (Fig. 15) is employed. To make this, the end of the rope is unlaid and the strands are spliced into the standing part of the rope in the same way as when making a short splice.

Fig. 15.

A Cut-splice (Fig. 16) is formed with two ropes by splicing the end of each into the standing part of the other as in an eye-splice. On a small yacht the shrouds are sometimes fitted over the hounds with a cut-splice, and this is neater than having two shrouds with a separate eye in each.

Fig. 16.

If one strand of a rope be cut through, the damage can be made good by removing a long piece of the injured strand and by laying in the groove thus left a new strand from another piece of similar rope. The ends are then knotted, halved, and turned under, as when making a long splice.

A Grommet, a useful rope-ring, is thus made: A strand is removed from a rope, care being taken