{"id":7797,"date":"2014-12-12T09:18:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=7797"},"modified":"2014-12-12T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:50:07","slug":"whipped-and-spliced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=7797","title":{"rendered":"Whipped and Spliced"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the (sailing) skills I don’t yet have is good rope work. I like knots and love to fool around with rope but I don’t know any advanced sailing stuff. So I grabbed my old trusty length of nylon (she’s been with me since the Hole’s days and was once a covergirl) and tried to do an eye splice<\/a>. It didn’t turn out completely horrible but it’s not pretty.<\/p>\n

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To try and tidy it up I also whipped<\/a> the end. I used minty dental floss: mmmmm, minty fresh! The finished result is quite sturdy but in need of some reworking to truly be as strong as possible. Remember, every time you bend a rope, it loses some of its strength! I will either cut it off or try the other end next. I also could use a stiffer rope as this soft nylon unravels a bit too much. If you are interested in trying yourself, \u00a0Animated Knots<\/a> is a great site to learn from.<\/p>\n

Another knot I ‘learned’ recently was the water bottle knot (jug sling or bottle sling). It’s an ancient knot used to carry bottles or jugs by their necks. Handy!<\/p>\n

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How Johnny Depp carries his rum.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The thing about learning these knots \u2014 any knots \u2014is it takes a lot of repetition to gain\u00a0a\u00a0mental understanding of the knot and build the muscle memory to be able to retain it even after extended periods of non-use. I’d say about half of my old climbing knots are still second nature to me and the others I have to think about first. There are even one or two more obscure ones that I just can’t remember. So ya, practice makes perfect…<\/p>\n

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One of the (sailing) skills I don’t yet have is good rope work. I like knots and love to fool around with rope but I don’t know any advanced sailing stuff. So I grabbed my old trusty length of nylon (she’s been with me since the Hole’s days and was once a covergirl) and tried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}