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cclark
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Initially Posted - 04/13/2005 :  18:48:54  Show Profile  Visit cclark's Homepage
In reading a post on the 25 specific forum, I read about a knot I hadn't heard of before, so I googled it and found the following website;
http://www.grogono.com/knot/index.php
I just thought I would pass along something I found useful.
Cheers,
Chris
Yam Ka '83 SK/TR #3749
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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 04/13/2005 :  23:58:00  Show Profile
Ok, I have to post the classic response... borrowed/slightly altered from the ancient Mac/Venture BBS system... back in the days when 2400 baud dialup was fast.

Ok, here it is... (drumroll)

If it's a knot website, then what is it? (rimshot)

Well, it was funny back then. You have to be kind of a geek to grok it.
Ok, I won't post anymore tonight.
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John G-
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Response Posted - 04/14/2005 :  00:46:02  Show Profile  Visit John G-'s Homepage
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I had these [url="http://www3.sympatico.ca/lar.richardson/nlknots.htm"]animated knots [/url]in my favorites but yours seems much more updated.

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Charlie Vick
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Response Posted - 04/14/2005 :  10:44:26  Show Profile
Perfect timing! I was thinking aabout this last night and remembered there were some sites posted here long ago on knots but didn't have time to do a search.
Now I don't have to!
Thanks yall!
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John V.
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Response Posted - 04/14/2005 :  12:53:38  Show Profile  Visit John V.'s Homepage
As a sailor I thought I knew my knots until I took the National Ski Patrol's Mountaineering course. We learned from several partollers who were also climbers and the knots they used were.....well I guess when it's your life on the end of the rope (yeah I know, but climbers use rope) there is by planning a lot of redundency. We had to bring a "victim" up a steep embankment from a deep gully and the stokes basket was secured in what I could only interpret as hurricane level knotting. But hey It's bad form to drop the patient.
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ilnadi
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Response Posted - 04/14/2005 :  13:08:52  Show Profile
SailNet has a few articles (http://www.sailnet.com/collections/seamanship/seamanship/index.cfm). SHeck out "Marlinspike Arts" in the middle of the page.

Speaking of which, does anybody make a marlinspike <u>without</u> a knife?
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John G-
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Response Posted - 04/14/2005 :  20:43:14  Show Profile  Visit John G-'s Homepage
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Speaking of which, does anybody make a marlinspike <u>without</u> a knife?
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Yes, I believe Mako sells a set that the knife and spike are separate. Sometimes the spike is referred to as a “fid”. Although a "fid" can also refer to a blunt pointed tool that is for releasing shackles.
[url="http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&&storeId=10001&langId=-1&productId=4860&ref=81902"]West Marine has a “fid”. [/url]

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ddlyle
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Response Posted - 04/16/2005 :  23:35:45  Show Profile  Visit ddlyle's Homepage
Hey Clambeach ... that was knot funny
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