Defender discontinuing splicing services

[Jammer]

Today I called to place an order with Defender (their web site e-commerce system was inoperative) and was informed that they no longer offer splicing services.


I can do my own splices but it's time consuming and I don't think I'm ever going to be as neat and tidy about it as the riggers who do it all the time. I am, in particular, happy to pay someone else $20 to make an eye splice in double braid. I am even happier to pay someone else to make a splice in core-dependent rope which I only use for halyards and will never splice often enough to get good at.


The availability of splicing service was one of the things that kept me going back there.


Neither Fisheries Supply nor Jamestown Distributors offer splicing services.



I guess it's just West Marine now. Either that or I have to get good.


Unless someone else has found a rigging place they like that ships out...?

[rslifkin]

Interesting. I just looked and the splicing options are still listed on their website.

[JC Reefer]

Sailing services in miami has a few guys that do nothing but splice. I once worked there.

[sailasia]

I was wondering when their services were going to go downhill when the 85 year old family business got sold to an online Canadian motorcyle company.

[Capt Clark]

�� for JC Reefer

I’ve found Sailing Services in Miami to do the impossible especially with splices. They are good, fast, and cheap or ….. reasonably priced with very high quality work done in expedited timeframes.

[scuba2]

It's a new Defender, with new owners. They just tore the store apart and updating it also.

[Sailmonkey]

I’ve had good results using online splicing from MauriPro. They’re in st Pete FL.

[GreenWave]

Most rigging companies will do splicing, especially the small independent guys.

[S/V Illusion]

One Connecticut District court docket lists a number of cases brought against Defender for liability and damages issues related at least in part for splice failures which may be one of the reasons they discontinued certain service work.

[Benz]

Originally Posted by GreenWave

Most rigging companies will do splicing, especially the small independent guys.

Small independent guy here. I can be DMd about splicing.

[Jammer]

Thanks for the replies. Since making the OP I have discovered that fisheries supply does splicing.


There is a local rigging shop but they are inconveniently located and their rope inventory is limited.