cariad
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Can anyone tell me of a site that will give me instructions on how to make such things?
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Baggy wrinkles?
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Mirelle
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Easy.
I'll tell you right now.
Take two lengths, about a metre each, of stout twine, and knot the ends about six inches from each end, to make a loop with two sets of tails. Hitch one set of tails to something at about chest height. Hold the other ends. Take some fairly stiff old rope of reasonable size and chop it into six inch lengths. Staplespun polypropylene, rather than Nylon or Terylene, suits, because of the stiffness.
Take a yarn from a six inch length of old rope and cow hitch it between the two lengths of twine. A cow hitch is a larks head if your book does not have the first title. Push it away from you to the knot. Repeat a few hundred times until you get to the other knot and you cannot shove any more in.
You now have a sort of giant hawk moth caterpillar - long wiggly and very hairy on one side.
Unhitch the end, then hitch it round the offending shroud, backstay, topping lift, etc. Wind it round and round and you will get a bottlebrush effect. Hitch the other end and you are done.
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I'll tell you right now.
Take two lengths, about a metre each, of stout twine, and knot the ends about six inches from each end, to make a loop with two sets of tails. Hitch one set of tails to something at about chest height. Hold the other ends. Take some fairly stiff old rope of reasonable size and chop it into six inch lengths. Staplespun polypropylene, rather than Nylon or Terylene, suits, because of the stiffness.
Take a yarn from a six inch length of old rope and cow hitch it between the two lengths of twine. A cow hitch is a larks head if your book does not have the first title. Push it away from you to the knot. Repeat a few hundred times until you get to the other knot and you cannot shove any more in.
You now have a sort of giant hawk moth caterpillar - long wiggly and very hairy on one side.
Unhitch the end, then hitch it round the offending shroud, backstay, topping lift, etc. Wind it round and round and you will get a bottlebrush effect. Hitch the other end and you are done.
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claymore
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Re: Easy.
Mirelle
Scarcely a post of your goes by without I sit here in awe of the length, depth, beam, height and cubic capacity of your knowledge.
Amazing!
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Claymore
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Mirelle
Scarcely a post of your goes by without I sit here in awe of the length, depth, beam, height and cubic capacity of your knowledge.
Amazing!
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Claymore
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snowleopard
Active member
101 uses for baggywrinkle
here's a few:
keep some handy in case you're drafted to play santa for the kids xmas party
wrap it round a stick to clean the heads
add to the dog's tail to avoid dusting
make a macho chest wig
any more?
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here's a few:
keep some handy in case you're drafted to play santa for the kids xmas party
wrap it round a stick to clean the heads
add to the dog's tail to avoid dusting
make a macho chest wig
any more?
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cariad
New member
Re: Easy.
Thanks Mirelle, I'll let you know how we get on......
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Thanks Mirelle, I'll let you know how we get on......
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Heckler
Active member
im gob smacked
saw one on the tele the other night, sky i think on rebuilding an old wooden boat, and the halyard for the dipping thing had one to stop chafe on the main sail.
stu
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saw one on the tele the other night, sky i think on rebuilding an old wooden boat, and the halyard for the dipping thing had one to stop chafe on the main sail.
stu
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Mirelle
N/A
On further thought
It's easier if you make both sets of tails fast at about chest height, keeping the twine fairly taut. Once you've got the first cow hitch done the two sides tend to stay open so its easy to do more.
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It's easier if you make both sets of tails fast at about chest height, keeping the twine fairly taut. Once you've got the first cow hitch done the two sides tend to stay open so its easy to do more.
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Gunfleet
New member
Re: Easy.
<<cubic capacity of your knowledge>>
shurely Thames tonnage for Mirelle? And did you notice he started off with one of those new fangled metres but soon slipped back into Imperial? Is Mirelle a closet moderniser? Is his Bavaria on back order?
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<<cubic capacity of your knowledge>>
shurely Thames tonnage for Mirelle? And did you notice he started off with one of those new fangled metres but soon slipped back into Imperial? Is Mirelle a closet moderniser? Is his Bavaria on back order?
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claymore
Well-known member
Re: On further thought
Oh now thats much better - chest height...yes.
Does this take account of the fact that as my inside leg is around the 28" mark my chest might be slightly lower than anyone else's?
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Claymore
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Oh now thats much better - chest height...yes.
Does this take account of the fact that as my inside leg is around the 28" mark my chest might be slightly lower than anyone else's?
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Claymore
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Mirelle
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Actually
I must get round to getting the echosounder mended! I've been using the lead line since March (one piece of leather at one fathom, one with two tails at two, three tails at three, white rag at five, blue rag at seven, piece of leather with a hole in at ten....) and whilst this works perfectly well, the charts are all metric now!
(I should never have chucked out the old Seafarer...worked for a quarter of a century...new gadget went wrong in months!)
I do have a plumbed in GPS, but the repeater is built into a cupboard at the back of the chart table, so as not to offend the eye of the purist, and I tend to forget that it's there!
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I must get round to getting the echosounder mended! I've been using the lead line since March (one piece of leather at one fathom, one with two tails at two, three tails at three, white rag at five, blue rag at seven, piece of leather with a hole in at ten....) and whilst this works perfectly well, the charts are all metric now!
(I should never have chucked out the old Seafarer...worked for a quarter of a century...new gadget went wrong in months!)
I do have a plumbed in GPS, but the repeater is built into a cupboard at the back of the chart table, so as not to offend the eye of the purist, and I tend to forget that it's there!
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claymore
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Oh go on..
You'll be telling us you have an engine next!
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Claymore
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You'll be telling us you have an engine next!
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Claymore
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Mirelle
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Well, sort of....
It's Swedish, 36 years old and 15 ponypower. The gearshift and throttle arrangements are likewise out of the Ark.
The expression of absolute disgust on the face of almost anyone new to the boat, when I explain that I ALREADY HAVE opened the throttle, and that 3.7 knots is all we are going to get, tells me that I should do something about this, too, but whenever I have the cash to replace it the boat spends it on something else!
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It's Swedish, 36 years old and 15 ponypower. The gearshift and throttle arrangements are likewise out of the Ark.
The expression of absolute disgust on the face of almost anyone new to the boat, when I explain that I ALREADY HAVE opened the throttle, and that 3.7 knots is all we are going to get, tells me that I should do something about this, too, but whenever I have the cash to replace it the boat spends it on something else!
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