Sailors and other rope users are familiar with the process of sweating or swigging up a line: pulling sharply sideways on the fall of a…
Sweating the Fall Things, a Rigging Puzzle
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Blending the ageless wisdom of traditional rigging with modern applications and materials.
Posted in Puzzle, and Rigging News
Sailors and other rope users are familiar with the process of sweating or swigging up a line: pulling sharply sideways on the fall of a…
Posted in Rigging News
Marlingspike skills have so many ways of being expressed. Here are two of my favorite recent examples, and one … not so much. First, the…
Falling, my new book, was intended to be just an e-book, but my spouse Christian loves actual books, so she went out and had a…
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New/Old While in Sausalito recently, I visited the brigantine Matthew Turner , where a largely volunteer crew — directed and trained by professionals — is putting…