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Jib sheet bowlines revisited
There was a bit of a too-do here recently about bowlines in jib sheets
coming undone. I think it was roughly 50-50 between those who had experienced it and those who were sure that anyone it had happened to was a complete lubber who couldn't tie their shoe laces without their mother's help. Maybe it was 60-40, anyway.... In my continuing obsession with the nearly one hundred bucks worth of Sta-Set X in my basement, I tried tying some bowlines in it. Maybe I'm getting weak in my old age but no amount of finishing and tensioning would produce a knot that I couldn't loosen with some shaking. I assure you, I know how to tie a bowline. I was tying them before most of you were born. This rope is pretty springy. I wouldn't trust a jib sheet bowline in this stuff without a back up seizing on the bitter end until it had been used for a few sails in a good wind. -- Roger Long |
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