Lakesailor
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Last night the Kirkstone Pass was closed by snow for a while. It seems very early in the year. There was also a huge thunderstorm which lasted for hours. Is this the climate change we are being told about?
Climate Change?
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duncanmack
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Not at all Phil.
It's Gnulabor bu ggering up the weather now.
It's Gnulabor bu ggering up the weather now.
sarabande
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Snow shoes, cheap snow shoes. Get them now, buy two, get one free!
(Seriously, are all your local supplies to shops JIT nowadays ?)
(Seriously, are all your local supplies to shops JIT nowadays ?)
Helina
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Tonight we have +9 , tiny bit warm for southern Finland so maybe worth while advertising in a newspaper that you want to buy snowshoes from here . /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Lakesailor
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No. Ambleside, 4 miles, is the World Centre for outdoor clothing. Keswick has a load of shops selling adventure gear as well.
Luckily they are always having sales and clearances. My breathable etc etc jacket I use for sailing cost me £20
Luckily they are always having sales and clearances. My breathable etc etc jacket I use for sailing cost me £20
2Tizwoz
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No that is the sort of climate change our weather forcasters frequently don't tell us about.
Have you got rid of that 4x4 yet?
Have you got rid of that 4x4 yet?
Lakesailor
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Which one? I'm a CRV driver now. Need to find a nice cardigan shop.
Danny Jo
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There was snow on the hills above about 1800 ft here in North West Wales, in spite of, rather than because of, climate change. But if global warming drastically reduces the amount of Ice in the Denmark Strait and stops the Gulf Stream in the next 30 years or so we could see much colder winters.
By the way, it's reassuring to see that someone else has problems making proper eye splices on the (bitter?) ends of sheets. At my first attempt I settled for a lashing like that shown on the main sheet in Lakesailors picture, but still hanker after a proper eye splice.
By the way, it's reassuring to see that someone else has problems making proper eye splices on the (bitter?) ends of sheets. At my first attempt I settled for a lashing like that shown on the main sheet in Lakesailors picture, but still hanker after a proper eye splice.
2Tizwoz
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Knit your own
Lake Cardigan
from the summer 2003 edition of Interweave
Lake Cardigan
from the summer 2003 edition of Interweave
Vara
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It's easy,just follow the instructions;
http://www.marlowropes.com/public/pageManager.cfm?page_id=205
And after 6 attempts,6 hours,blistered hands and much swearing you end up with a misshapen lump in the end of the rope which you wouldn't use on a dog lead.
You stitch and whip. 10 minutes and it works.
http://www.marlowropes.com/public/pageManager.cfm?page_id=205
And after 6 attempts,6 hours,blistered hands and much swearing you end up with a misshapen lump in the end of the rope which you wouldn't use on a dog lead.
You stitch and whip. 10 minutes and it works.
Danny Jo
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Misshapen lumps
Colmce's link shows Marlow's instructions for splicing rope with a braid sheath on a stranded core. The only ones I've tried are braid on braid. This allows burying of the core in the sheath at the same point as the sheath is buried in the core (I know, it sounds like an oxymoron, but it can be done). My first attempt was using the instructions in Brion Toss's "The Rigging Handbook". It's still on the boat, so for the second I used Barbara Merry's "The Splicing Handbook". Her instructions seem less sophisticated than Toss's, but both stress the importance of tapering the ends of the core and the sheath. (I had previously done some using the instructions that came with a set of fids; I wouldn't recommend this method because it seemed to rely on the strength of the sheath alone.)
At risk of appearing smug, here is my second attempt, on Freestyle's man-overboard hoisting tackle (using materials bought with chandlery tokens generously donated by colleagues as a retirement gift)
The next challenge is to repeat it without leaving black marker pen marks on the finished splice.
Mark
Colmce's link shows Marlow's instructions for splicing rope with a braid sheath on a stranded core. The only ones I've tried are braid on braid. This allows burying of the core in the sheath at the same point as the sheath is buried in the core (I know, it sounds like an oxymoron, but it can be done). My first attempt was using the instructions in Brion Toss's "The Rigging Handbook". It's still on the boat, so for the second I used Barbara Merry's "The Splicing Handbook". Her instructions seem less sophisticated than Toss's, but both stress the importance of tapering the ends of the core and the sheath. (I had previously done some using the instructions that came with a set of fids; I wouldn't recommend this method because it seemed to rely on the strength of the sheath alone.)
At risk of appearing smug, here is my second attempt, on Freestyle's man-overboard hoisting tackle (using materials bought with chandlery tokens generously donated by colleagues as a retirement gift)
The next challenge is to repeat it without leaving black marker pen marks on the finished splice.
Mark
Lakesailor
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You stitch and whip. 10 minutes and it works.
[/ QUOTE ] I think that's the rub. It works. The one in the pic was on the boat when I got it. I moved the track down the cockpit and as the mainsheet claw is now further from the mast have been able to dipense with one of the parts of the mainsheet so the whipped end is now at the top of the tackle (around a sheave). I did the new end the same as the old. I didn't want to spend a lot of time on it as it may have been I'd lost too much mechanical advantage. Stitching and whipping works for me.
You stitch and whip. 10 minutes and it works.
[/ QUOTE ] I think that's the rub. It works. The one in the pic was on the boat when I got it. I moved the track down the cockpit and as the mainsheet claw is now further from the mast have been able to dipense with one of the parts of the mainsheet so the whipped end is now at the top of the tackle (around a sheave). I did the new end the same as the old. I didn't want to spend a lot of time on it as it may have been I'd lost too much mechanical advantage. Stitching and whipping works for me.
StanFolds
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As someone who lives on his wits and a pension (both of which fall short of the desired levels) I find stitch and whip uses less rope and is easier to undo so that the rope can be reversed to reduce wear, and extend its life.
Stan
Stan
Danny Jo
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I find stitch and whip uses less rope and is easier to undo so that the rope can be reversed to reduce wear, and extend its life
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Very good point. And a failed eye splice messes up a metre or so of good rope. I suppose it's vanity that drives me, as much as the desire to get good enough at it to trust my topping lift to to a home made eye splice when I come to replace it. (Professional riggers evidently had enough confidence in my existing topping lift, which looks every bit of the boat's 18 years, to use it as a temporary backstay while one of them nipped up the mast to replace the backstay).
Mark
I find stitch and whip uses less rope and is easier to undo so that the rope can be reversed to reduce wear, and extend its life
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Very good point. And a failed eye splice messes up a metre or so of good rope. I suppose it's vanity that drives me, as much as the desire to get good enough at it to trust my topping lift to to a home made eye splice when I come to replace it. (Professional riggers evidently had enough confidence in my existing topping lift, which looks every bit of the boat's 18 years, to use it as a temporary backstay while one of them nipped up the mast to replace the backstay).
Mark
Swanrad2
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Just curious, has somone proved the concept of global warming to be true when I wasn't looking? Last time I did look at the scientific data (granted 15 years ago but the ocean sediment record is a bt older than that) it wasn't proved.... when did the theory become universally accepted fact?
Not totally ssailing I know but it bugs me
Not totally ssailing I know but it bugs me
Lakesailor
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Ah! I didn't say Global Warming.
I said climate change, which is a different thing.
I think global warming as a result of man's intervention is bollocks.
But we are entering a period of climate change (I think) and as a matter of nature, mankind may not emerge from the other end.
I said climate change, which is a different thing.
I think global warming as a result of man's intervention is bollocks.
But we are entering a period of climate change (I think) and as a matter of nature, mankind may not emerge from the other end.
Swanrad2
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An enlightened voice in a sea of drivel. I dont know if global warmig is fact or theory- so blind acceptance/presentation as fact is the problem. Politicians meddling in stuff that they don't understand, bit like this red diesel thing .
oldharry
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An enlightened voice in a sea of drivel. I dont know if global warmig is fact or theory- so blind acceptance/presentation as fact is the problem. Politicians meddling in stuff that they don't understand, bit like this red diesel thing .
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Entirely agree with Lakesailor. Climate Change does appear to be on the agenda. I once read that mankind was only able to evolve because the globe has experienced a period of exceptional climatological stability since the last Ice Age. If that is true, then we can not really complain if the climate is doing what it has always done.
Global Warming IMHO is nothing more than a psuedo scientific concept invented by journalists for a good bit of scaremongering, and latched on to by the Politicians as a means of applying further taxation, and raising votes from the Greens.
Come in mankind, your time is up...?
An enlightened voice in a sea of drivel. I dont know if global warmig is fact or theory- so blind acceptance/presentation as fact is the problem. Politicians meddling in stuff that they don't understand, bit like this red diesel thing .
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Entirely agree with Lakesailor. Climate Change does appear to be on the agenda. I once read that mankind was only able to evolve because the globe has experienced a period of exceptional climatological stability since the last Ice Age. If that is true, then we can not really complain if the climate is doing what it has always done.
Global Warming IMHO is nothing more than a psuedo scientific concept invented by journalists for a good bit of scaremongering, and latched on to by the Politicians as a means of applying further taxation, and raising votes from the Greens.
Come in mankind, your time is up...?
Swanrad2
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I always quite fancied mooring to the top of Big Ben anyway.
oldharry
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Already booked..... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
