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
Posted in Puzzle, and Rigging News
Month: December 2018
Handwork
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…
New/Old, Semi-Old, and Very New
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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…