Being safe around ropes

[hellosailor]

J-
When I learned to sail, they were up front about keeping long hair secured (bandanna, watch cap, bun, whatever) not wearing necklaces, large earrings, even regular rings and watches can all be "catch" hazards. As well as never stepping inside a coil of line, never letting a loaded line give you a friction burn, staying clear of tow ropes that might snap. All pretty much basic safety when you're literally working "in" a large machine with moving parts.
I suppose the phrase "traumatic amputation" tends to discourage folks from the sport, huh?

[Kerry1]

Uh oh---thread diversion in progress- where are the thought police when you need them? The pedantry is charming, but I for one really want to hear about how to use lines, ropes, cordage, even the "thingy's" that adjust sails- safely.

Let's go guys..

[Thomashay]

Ok so help me lihuedooley77 — what is a C gasket?

[boatman61]

Could not tell you.. only have a cockpit locker and lazerette.

[Dranflydbl]

Hmm, I just love semantics!

[Pelagic]

Originally Posted by StuM

What is it in a rope locker?

S&M [emoji57]

[Richard5]

Originally Posted by Pelagic

All it proves is that you were taught differently.
I am anything but a landlubber yet I was taught to call an unused piece of rope.. "A line"
By a bloody Englishman no less. [emoji33]

Once put into service a rope is known by another name, ie, sheet, halyard, rode. However, there are exceptions, the number being four, ie, boltrope, bell rope (the striker on the ship's bell is secured to a rope), and two other examples. With some effort I suppose you could name them.

[Pelagic]

Originally Posted by Richard5

Once put into service a rope is known by another name, ie, sheet, halyard, rode. However, there are exceptions, the number being four, ie, boltrope, bell rope (the striker on the ship's bell is secured to a rope), and two other examples. With some effort I suppose you could name them. [emoji3]

I've decided to rename everything on my boat with familiar names that my Filipino crew are used to
The Head(s) will now be CR (comfort room)
Galley is Kitchen
I think the Port Cabin will be the Red Room
Starboard the Green Room
Cockpit... The Lobby
Pilothouse... Upstairs
[emoji4]

I'll put labels on them for those constrained by nautical correctness.[emoji1]

[a64pilot]

My Wife just will not refer to things by their correct name, we have couches, a kitchen, bathrooms, and the cockpit is the back porch.
Drives our Son insane

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by a64pilot

My Wife just will not refer to things by their correct name, we have couches, a kitchen, bathrooms, and the cockpit is the back porch.
Drives our Son insane

Makes him want to jump over the fence and swim for shore Huh..!!!

[jsanton]

Dont you just love this bunch! Take an important discussion and turn it into semantics war...
Ok, you’ve brought up a subject near and dear to my heart. I second all the real answers you’ve received. With the exception that I don’t consider being safe to be obvious. It has to be tutored and reinforced regularly. Think safety. And when you have crew, talk about it. At least at the beginning of the voyage and whenever things start to devolve-as in get u safe.
I do have a detail question. I’m a bit experienced, but I havent encountered the policy of how to hold the line when feeding the winch. I wonder if that’s because I was trained on self tailers. Can someone explain the why and how? Here on this thread would be a good place.

[RSH]

There is an episode of Below Deck where Ashton gets his foot caught in the line to the tender, and almost loses his foot. Dude got SUPER lucky...

https://www.bravotv.com/below-deck/s...gged-overboard

Our ASA instructor was very particular about where our lines were going when we were learning-they all come to the helm on our cat and it can get very snaky and messy when you're pulling in all these lines and the boat is zipping along and you're trying to think of a thousand things, not die, not fall overboard, and not to put your foot in a nest of rope because you forgot to tie it up properly.

[boatman61]

[QUOTE=jsanton;2839501I’m a bit experienced, but I havent encountered the policy of how to hold the line when feeding the winch. I wonder if that’s because I was trained on self tailers. Can someone explain the why and how? Here on this thread would be a good place.[/QUOTE]

Having done a lot of solo sailing on old boats up to 37ft without self tailers I will try..
Tacking and headsail..
Before the tack prep the opposite winch with a couple of turns and take in the surplus line, as the head passes through the wind release the former load line and haul in fast on the opposite line till load comes on.. increase turns to three, fit winch handle and crank in.. pause and move grip to lower down nearer the winch and repeat till sail set.. use both hands when modifying grip else you'll lose the lot
To feed out.. hand over hand.. you may have to go down to two turns but a palm placed firmly on the turns will act as a jammer while doing this, adding or removing the third turn.
Others may do it differently.

[Painless]

I think this discussion partially answers a previous thread about “where are all the new young cruisers?” If anyone was considering cruising and followed this thread morphing from “safety to semantics “about ropes vs lines... who would want to cruise?
Maybe all the young kids are starting to worry about their parents going off on tangents.

[AuroraGH]

Originally Posted by Hoosierdoc

And what’s a rope?

An unemployed line.

Its not a line until it has a job. Until then its just rope.