On Jun 8, 5:20 am, Bill wrote:

I am going to get a few fids later, the boat I am building now will
have mostly three strand line so they will come in handy. I mostly
want something i can use to loosen knots with on deck.

Bill

Fids are fun to play with. I hate to see line terminated
with a bowline, when an eye-splice is called for.

I noticed that all the 2.4M boats I saw, with their
small diameter lines were tied, not spliced.

I have not tried splicing any really small stuff,
but I would certainly try. I'd prefer even a box
splice to a bowline any day.

Bart