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Overhand loop. The problem with knotted jackstays is that because the knot weakens the webbing, and the webbing is just barely strong...

It seems several haven't bothered to read the Look for yourself bit above where the product is described as 'Unidirectional fibres'...

Not quite so. According to Marlow's Technical Manager Paul Dyer "Dyneema DM20 is a yarn with zero creep, meaning it has almost no creep...

That innovator John Franta at Colligo Marine has just emailed me some sparse details of his new hot-off-the-press standing rigging...

Apart from the reference above, no-one really knows. And just about everyone assumes that the safe life of 'their' jacklines and tethers...

I wish....

Not so much an SOH Failure, more a 'weak joke' penchant! You needed an SOH when burning long holes in the sky, 8 miles up over the...

No - it's secant (1/cosine). And of course that's only for a spherical earth - it's MUCH nastier taking into account the ellipsoid.

There remain scores of RN (retd) and RAF (retd) master navigators who'll be smiling indulgently at that slice of b***s. HMQueen spent a...

Let's not even start on Irish Miles.... :D

I intend to ship one, or perhaps two, FX-16 Fortress anchors and an S80/15kg Spade anchor. There's 30m. of 6.6mm Grade 80 chain, plus...

To answer the title, as many as you feel fit. To answer the body of the text having done this once, and never again. Get a fully body...

Sounds to me like Skye in August...!

They learned English and (are/were ) being replaced by a lot that spoke Urdu/Farsi/Pashto/Dari....

I think this applies to the users at least as much as the devices!