829 Southdrive

829 Southdrive

A New Jersey state of mind



Saturday, June 8, 2013

Knot Rocket Science





If there's one knot a sailor needs to know, it's the bowline.
If you need to secure your painter to a piling, tie a bowline.
If you need to tie your spinnaker sheet to the spinnaker
clue grommet, tie a bowline.  If the keg is floating away from 
the hoist area, tie a bowline to the tap assembly.  And so on.

I'm up on my extension ladder against an oak tree with 
my chainsaw.  There's a fairly thick limb that I want to cut 
down.  I don't want to fall whilst chainsawing said limb, 
so I tie myself around the trunk of the tree with a bowline.

The examples are endless.  A foolproof knot to use in
everyday situations.  Everyone needs to learn this knot.
Learn it.  Know it.  Use it. 

3 comments:

  1. well put Baydog.

    I've used the bowline several times this spring pulling a vehicle (wife got our little car stuck in the snow on the driveway at our land, and my brother-in-law got his van stuck out there too!) with a long length of rope. I wanted a knot that wouldn't cinch up too tight against either vehicle, and the bowline worked out great.

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  2. When you were up in the oak tree with your chainsaw, did you notice a rabbit running around the tree?

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    1. Funny, yes. It came out of its hole, ran around the tree, then went back in its hole. Or something like that.

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