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25-11-2009, 20:31
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: landlocked, but boat in Hampton Roads area
Boat: 1975 tartan 27
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Knotical Souvenir - FAIL
I went home to visit my parents for Thanksgiving and they gave me this little trinket they picked up while visiting Prince Edward Island. Apparently, souvenir shops bank on the fact that most land-based tourists lack nautical experience.
I love it. It makes for a fun matching game! 
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25-11-2009, 20:40
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Eternal Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: North of Baltimore
Boat: Ericson 27 & 18' Herrmann Catboat
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I took a 2 young women sailing (and explained how to do things like which direction the line goes on a winch and how to make fast to a cleat.....) one was doing great......the wind came up and she got a little tense,,,,and when we went to jibe
I said....make it fast.......she kinda froze and then said OH, you want me to three loop-de-doops around the doohickey and tie it too the thinghy?
I said............................YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I took a while to raise myself off the deck because I was laughing so hard....we all were. I told them in a few years....that will be THE command.
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25-11-2009, 20:42
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Slovenia not Slovakia; gulf of Triest
Boat: owned a 6m single hull sailing boat, a HIRONDELL 23 cat and chartered modern +8m ELAN boats
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i have this one few meters from my desk. got it from parents for happybirthday or something. if you ask me, these suvenirs are a bit trumpery.
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25-11-2009, 23:50
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Largo, Florida
Boat: Bruce Roberts Offshore 38
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Sailors used to make Knot Boards during long passages to pass the time and also display their proficiency with the different knots.
Maybe next year you should make a real one like this to give your parents for their birthday...
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Some people are like a slinky...
Not really good for anything, but fun to push down the stairs. 
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26-11-2009, 03:09
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Building a Bateau TW28
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Iroquois, Ontario
Boat: Bateau TW28 Long Cabin
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Trivia: How many ropes are there on a ship? 
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26-11-2009, 06:13
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Tampa Bay area, USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by knottybuoyz
Trivia: How many ropes are there on a ship? |
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26-11-2009, 06:30
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: landlocked, but boat in Hampton Roads area
Boat: 1975 tartan 27
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Just to be clear, the hilarity I find from the knot board is that they have the wrong label for most (or all) of the knots.
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26-11-2009, 06:44
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Great Neck, N.Y.
Boat: Lancer 30, Little Jumps
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If it's a ship with a sail, it might have a boltrope!...and if it has a
bell, a bell rope. I believe there are a few more...non come to mind right now...I'm preoccupied with getting in a sail this morning (if wind allows) and getting back in time for Thanksgiving dinner...Oh ye...there may be enough rope
on board to hang myself if I don't get back home in time
for dinner! Happy Thanksgiving All! Hugo
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s/v Little Jumps
Lancer 30
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26-11-2009, 07:16
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Seattle
Boat: Cal 40 (sold). Still have a Hobie 20
Posts: 2,974
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Bucket rope is another.
John
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26-11-2009, 10:01
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Puget Sound
Boat: Irwin 41 CC Ketch
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All rope is rope till put to use ...at that time it becomes a line..even cable is called wire rope....bell rope and bolt rope excluded I guess.
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26-11-2009, 12:25
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: between the devil and the deep blue sea
Boat: a sailing boat
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I love to watch them bowlines tied all the possible ways, except for the correct one ....
Aside from the "bowline" my fun list includes:
- the way a Polynesian girl tied us to the bollard (twice round, but no hitches),
- the way Spanish marineros tie the line on the cleat (never seen them do it right, almost 2 years in Spain now),
Cruising is fun. But sailing is the real thing.
;-)))
b.
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