• Craft activities to do at home: build your own compass and learn how to make sailor knots. • Content for children aged 4 and over. Games for all the family. Hours of fun. • No ads. Come on, cabin-boy, get on board!
• Craft activities to do at home: build your own compass and learn how to make sailor knots. • Content for children aged 4 and over. Games for all the family. Hours of fun. • No ads. Come on, cabin-boy, get on board!
How to tie knots. Clear step by step knot instructions plus animated knots for boaters, scouts, climbers, search and rescue, arborists and sailors.
Learn how to prepare your crew for docking, how to safely control your speed on your approach to the dock, how to safely step off the boat onto the dock, and finally how to secure your boat once you have docked. The Downwind Approach A good sailor must know how to dock their boat ...
I was nearing the end of my watch at 11 p.m., 150 nautical miles off the northwest Australian coast, when I peered around the dodger on our 35-foot sloop to catch a better look at our sails. It was, as a friend described it, “champagne conditions”—15 knots aft of the beam, ...
Sailors know their knots. There are two general types you should know: bend and hitch. A bend is a knot that fastens rope ends together. A hitch loops a rope around itself to secure the boat to a rail or post. There are hundreds of knots but only a few basics that should be on ...
How to quickly coil a rope.This method of coiling a rope is a staff favorite here at NetKnots. It is very similar to theSailor's Coil, but ties up a little quicker. As Clifford Ashely states about this method to coil a rope inThe Ashley Book of Knots, "there is never a knot witho...
Splicing Knots. A Splice is usually significantly stronger than a knot and is intended to be permanent. Undoing a splice and re-making it takes much more time than doing the same with most knots.
Sailors know their knots. There are two general types you should know: bend and hitch. A bend is a knot that fastens rope ends together. A hitch loops a rope around itself to secure the boat to a rail or post. There are hundreds of knots but only a few basics that should be on ...
Washing: Once they're mature, you can wash locks as often as you want. Some people wait a week; some do it once a month. There is no single correct timeline, but you may choose to wash your hair more often if your scalp is oily, as oil cancause knots to loosen. When you do wa...