Knot Based Soft Shackles

Soft shackles are fast becoming more popular than traditional metal shackles, making tying them a skill that every sailor should know. If you have put off learning how to make them due to the complicated knots and the splicing which are often required to create them, then this is the video for you.

The team at Bottom Up Boats have created the ultimate soft shackle video, demonstrating three knot based soft shackles and four ways to secure them using the simplest of sailing knots that most sailors already know how to tie.

The Knot Based soft shackles have some advantages over the spliced varieties :-

1. You can use both double and single braided rope.
2. No splicing skills required.
3. Can be made in seconds.
4. Multiple stopper knots can be used to finish them.
5. Multiple ways to finish them with varying security.

While we love these knot based soft shackles they do have some disadvantages of the various spliced options. Some of these are as follows :-

1. Lower breaking strain as only two width of rope used.
2. Lower breaking strain with the secure knot based finishes.
3. Harder to undo after load is applied with the knot base finishes.
4. Looped finishes can come undone easily when not under load.

The team at Bottom Up Boats hope you enjoyed the soft shackle video, if you want more details explanations of the three stopper knots in the main video you can lean more from the videos below.

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