Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Rename a boat?!?

Now you can with Vigor's patented (or at least published) "denaming ceremony"!

Cheers,

Geoff S.

Monday, May 09, 2005

Knots!

I'm a knot idiot. Even though I've been an active sailor for over 20 years, my knot repertoire consists of:
  1. Bowline
  2. Sliding taut line hitch (and/or midshipmans hitch, rolling hitch, ...)
  3. Sheetbend (which doesn't really count, since it's just a bowline)
  4. Figure-8 stopper knot.
  5. A couple of cool pseudo-knots for tying rope halyards to headboards.
I've tried to learn more knots, but they just don't seem to stick in my brain...
So, I was tremendously interested in some cool animated gifs of knots posted to the del.icio.us sailing tag. They probably won't help me learn anthing new, but for someone less knot-challenged it may be a useful aid.

Cheers,

Geoff S.
DN US-5156/Laser 145234/Renegade 510