"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:57:58 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 13:00:48 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Used to be I could do this in my sleep.

Now I can't remember how to do a short splice to join two pieces of
rope.

AAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

Chapman book?

Nah - I figured it out eventually - just took a couple of tries.

Seriously, I used to be able to do that by feel only.

Amazing how time flies.

I never learned, which is absolutely ridiculous. If you saw the Rube
Goldberg method I used for assembling my anchor rode, you'd shoot me, and
I
wouldn't blame you.

You used a Surgeon's Knot didn't you?

Worse. A bowline, with the tag end fastened using waxed whipping twine.
Solid, but really ugly.