Splicing Cruising Double Braid Dyneema

[Dockhead]

I bought a piece of double braid dyneema to make a new staysail sheet, and when I went to splice it, I found that it was actually TRIPLE braid, with some gauzy cotton-like tube between the outer polyester cover and the thin dyneema 12-plait core.


WTF?


I've never used anything but racing-grade double braid dyneema on my boat before, and was baffled to discover this.


I use the Brian Toss method for splicing eyes in this stuff and am a bit baffled how to adapt the methodology. Theoretically, if I remove the gauzy hamburger-helper part from the whole end of the rope, it should make it easier to splice, since the hardest part of splicing dyneema double braid is stuffing the doubled part of the core into the cover.


Anyone encounter this? Tips?