Mooring Y Shape Bridles - Custom Build Instructions
The Jimmy Green Rigging Sales Team are very happy to help with any aspect of custom building and ordering a Y bridle to meet your bespoke requirements.
Follow these steps to get an instant quote and complete the order yourself.
Build a Y shape in two components and add each one to your shopping basket as you go:
Follow the Jimmy Green Custom Build process to create the two parts as per the illustration above, get an instant quote and complete the order yourself:
Build 1 - Single Part
Follow these steps, building a single line from the outboard end:
- Step 1 - Splicing, optional - Select a finish for the moooring/anchoring end of the strop - not making a selection will result in a basic heat gun cut
- Step 2 - Compensators, optional - Choose a compensator option - not making a selection will result in nothing being added
- Step 3 - Anti-Chafe, optional - Choose an anti-chafe option – not making a selection will result in nothing being added
- Step 4 - Rope, required - Pick a rope, a colour and enter your finished length - This will be the length from bearing edge to bearing edge
- Step 5 - Interlocking Eye Splice, required - Select the interlocking thimble eye splice - this is a required field
- Step 6 - Add a Custom Product Name, optional - add any notes for yourself or the Rigging Team as necessary
Build 2 - V Part
Follow these steps, building a < from the top right to the apex and back to the bottom right:
- Step 1 - Splicing, optional - Select a finish for the first (boat) end of your bridle - not making a selection will result in a basic heat gun cut
- Step 2 - Anti-Chafe, optional - Choose an anti-chafe option - not making a selection will result in nothing being added
- Step 3 - Compensators, optional - Choose a compensator - not making a selection will result in nothing being added
- Step 4 - Rope, required - Pick a rope, a colour and enter the length required for the first tail - This will be the length from bearing edge to bearing edge
- Step 5 - Interlocking Splice, required - Select the interlocking thimble centre eye splice
- Step 6 - Rope, required - Pick the matching rope and enter a matching length for the second tail - This will be the length from bearing edge to bearing edge
- Step 7 - Compensators, optional - Choose a matching compensator - not making a selection will result in nothing being added
- Step 8 - Anti-Chafe, optional - Choose an anti-chafe option - not making a selection will result in nothing being added
- Step 9 - Splicing, optional - Select a finish for the other (boat) end of your bridle - not making a selection will result in a basic heat gun cut
- Step 10 - Add a Custom Product Name, optional - add any notes for yourself or the Rigging Team as necessary
N.B.
Ensure that you select matching rope for each tail and a matching finish for attaching to your cleats, in order to create a symmetrical V part of the Y bridle.
The mooring compensators will be fitted nearer the centre eye splice, unless otherwise specified by email.
Any anti-chafe can then be suitably positioned to protect the tails as they pass through the fairleads and on to the cleats.
If for any reason you would prefer an asymmetrical configuration with non-matching splicing/whipping on the two tails and/or one tail longer than the other, please order as above and send an email confirming your desired specification with a sketch if possible.
e.g If your fairleads are not positioned the same port and starboard, you may prefer a loop splice on the end of one tail for a fixed length and a longer second tail with a whipping, in order to adjust the bridle to take the load equally.
Once you have made your selection in all the drop-down boxes available, our website will generate:
- a picture version of what you have chosen
- an overall length
- a price including VAT, or excluding VAT if you are signed in with an export delivery address
Jimmy Green Rigging Team Finished Length Advisory
The website will accept a length to 3 decimal points. However, this is not usually practicable.
For V bridles, a measurement to the nearest metre or half metre is usually quite adequate.
For short strops and bridles with a splice at both ends, the Jimmy Green Rigging Team aim for a bearing edge to bearing edge measurement, accurate to within 1%.
The finished length is checked in the measuring trough while the strop is pulled out straight, but not stretched tight with excessive force.
All ropes stretch to some extent under low load. Mooring and Anchoring ropes stretch more than most.
Therefore, although we aim for an accuracy of plus or minus 1%, 2% is more realistic, and Jimmy Green Marine can only accept responsibility for the finished length of a strop spliced at both ends, to within a minimum tolerance of plus or minus 100mm.
If you have chosen to add a compensator, the Rigging Team will reeve it onto the line before completing the second splice, but the achievable accuracy of the finished length is diminished.
Jimmy Green Rigging Team Whipping Advisory
If you don't need a splice, a whipping is advisable to prevent the end from unravelling and to maintain the integrity of the rope construction.
We offer a heat sealing option which melts and moulds the end of the rope, and the additional option of a heat shrink band, to keep the end of the line bound together.
However, these are only temporary solutions and a proper whipping is always recommended, to guarantee the integrity of the line.
Of course, we understand that you may wish to apply the finishing touch yourself, and we sell all the Fids, Tools and Whipping Twines to add to your onboard service kit.
The Next Custom Build Steps:
- Check the item is designed as you wish - You can change any of your options and the website will update the picture and the price.
- Add any notes in the editable box provided, if required
- Check the quantity that you want to purchase and click the orange Add to Basket button to put it in your shopping basket.
- Select Continue Shopping or Proceed to Checkout.
- To view the items you have selected, go to your basket or direct to checkout.
Additional Notes for your Custom Build
You can add a note for your own benefit or to advise the Rigging Team of a specific requirement.
This note will appear in the product description in your basket
Common examples:
- Add a name for identifying your selection
- Splice on a fitting to either end
- Request a different loop length
Jimmy Green Additional Fitting Advisory
When a fitting is requested from outside the custom build process, it will be assumed that the finished length is measured to the bearing edge of the additional fitting(s)
In other words, the finished length will include any shackles, hooks or fittings.
The same principle applies to special requests for different lengths of loop.
Additional Information
The finished length is measured from the bearing edge to the bearing edge = the inside face of a loop/thimble where a shackle pin would take the load and therefore NOT the overall outside length
The splicing price includes the extra rope required to make the splice and meet the specified finished length
Please refer to the 'Finished Length Advisory' for the achievable parameters.
The finished length applies to each 'tail' or 'leg' of the V part of a bridle i.e. from the end of each line to the splice at the apex, and for the single part of the bridle that completes the Y shape.
The principles of measuring to the bearing edge are illustrated below:
Quality Control
The Jimmy Green Rigging Team undertake to check your rope meticulously during the production process to ensure that it is 100% First Quality.
The Jimmy Green Despatch Team make a second thorough quality inspection of each item, including a careful check that it matches your order, before packing it into your parcel.
Please take extra care when ordering because once a bespoke item has been started (cut) it can neither be cancelled or returned for a refund.