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Barbara Merry is a marine rope worker with twenty years of expierence in the splicing trade. Dounder and owner of the MArlinspike Artist in Wakefield, Rhode Island, she has worked on projects for boats of all sizes, from small traditional sialing craft and working schooners to commercial fishing vessels and U.S. Coast Guard cutters. She has taught at the WooderBoat School and the Northeast Maritime Institute, and has written on rope and rope technology for WoodenBoat and Invention and Technology. John Darwin is a rope design and engineering consultant for New England Ropes, Inc.

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction to Splicing Rope Construction Synthetic Rope Materials Summary of Rope Characteristics Small Stuff Rope Care Splicing Tools 2. Three-Strand Twisted Rope Eye Splice Decorative Eye Splice Ring Splice Short Splice End Splice 3. Three-Strand Splicing Projects Key Lanyard Dog Collar and Leash Rope Railings with Double Wall and Crown Knot Cliff's Sailing Harness 4. Double-Braid Rope Eye Splice End-to-End Splice End Splice Rope-to-Wire Splice Jig for the Rope-to-Wire Splice Core-to-Core Eye Splice Reduced Volume End-to-End Splice 5. Solid-Braid Splice 6. Braid with Three-Strand Core Eye Splice Rope-to-Wire Splice 7. Braid with Parallel Core Eye Splice 8. Hollow Braid Eye Splice Locked Eye Splice End-to-End Splice 9. Copolymer End-to-End Splice 10. Eight-Plait Rope Eye Splice End-to-End Splice Temporary Eye Splice 11. Eight-Plait Rope-to-Chain Splice Rope-to-Chain Splice 12. Twelve-Plait Rope Eye Splice End-to-End Splice 13. Whipping and Seizing Traditional Whipping Sailmaker's Whipping Seizing Chafe Protection 14. Sew-and-Serve Eye Splice 15. Quick and Easy Knots 16. Liverpool Wire Splice 17. Making Your Own Rope Glossary Index