Page 65 - Frank Rosenow "Seagoing Knots"

Lark’s Heads and Toggles

Sometimes, the extensive use of a single type of knot on a boat proves
instructive. I had never taken any interest in the grapevine knot until
scrambling on board the ischetano trawler NA 179. Every knot on board
was a grapevine. The skipper had even dodged the need to use another tie
for his mooring lines by splicing and toggling them.
Nor did the lark’s head make any waves until I stepped on board my

good friend Olaf Gilka Damm’s 8 Meter Margaret to sail from Skagen to
Marstrand. Olaf had found the boat laid up in a shed at Robertson’s yard
on the Clyde. He bought her from the elderly owner, Mr. Dumfries Ballen-
tine, who provided Olaf and me with a favorite maritime character in his
notes about the history of the boat since the 1927 launching.

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