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February 07, 2025 1 min read

Learn How to Taper a Rope 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 (see below)
  3. How to make continuous control lines for your dinghy (coming soon)

This second video shows you how to create a taper in a sheet rope, in this instance we are using 6mm Kingfisher Evo Dinghy Lite rope.

Rope Splicing Tools We Used

Tapering Dyneema Rope 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.