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3324. A Buoy ROPE HITCH from Brady (New York, 1841). Brady

gives a method of making fast to the crown of the anchor without

leading the end up the shank. A RUNNING EYE SPLICE is put around

one arm, a SINGLE HITCH is taken around the other arm, and the

hitch is seized "in the cross."

3325. The following is a method of boating tmchors, employed

when kedging ship, before the days of steam. The anchor was low-

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ered into the water by the tackles shown. The boat was drifted over

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the anchor, and the anchor was toggled to the boat by straps around

her midship section. The tackles having been removed, the boat was

pulled out ahead of the ship and the anchor dropped by driving out

the toggle.

3326. A mooring buoy of 1750 was made of a section of an old

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mast or spar. The buoy rope bore a SPRITSAIL SHEET KNOT.

3327. To strap a buoy. Buoys were formerly made caskwise by

a cooper. It is only since the days of Galvin that iron buoys have

proved universally practical. Two grommets were made to pass

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around the buoy, halfway from the center to the end. Four straps of

equal length were made with EYE SPLICES in each end. The straps,

two for each end, were seized to the grommets. The grommets were

3321 driven taut and double beckets were seized into the bights of the

straps at each end of the buoy. All crossings were seized.

3328 3328. Six straps of equal length were cut and two sets of three

were stopped together at the middle. The ends of each set were side

spliced to the opposite straps and triple beckets were seized in at each

end of the buoy.

3329. A nun buoy strap was tightened by seizing in the eyes. A

nun buoy had a head similar to a hogshead or cask. It was used for a

29 channel marker as well as for an anchor buoy.

3330. This one is tightened by seizing different parts together.

Two straps are employed, which makes a DOUBLE EYE at each end.

The eyes are seized in and served.

3331. An ordinary keg serves as a swordfish or a seine buoy. Two

grommets are used for hoops and a line is snaked to the grommets

around the body of the keg, being either seized or clove hitched to

them. A short bridle is eye spliced and seized to the grommets and

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also has a thimble seized in at the center, to which the buoy line is

bent.

3332 33~5 3332. Posts and bollards on wharfs are never placed twice alike,

so there is considerable variety in the ways of tying up, though the

principle is always the same. This shows a boat tied up with a bow

line, stern line and a forward spring line. This triangulates the moor-

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3333. A boat with the same gear but with the addition of a breast

line. The spring line in this case leads aft.

3334. Three fishermen are here tied up abreast, with breast lines

at the quarters to hold them against wind and current. There is a

tacit understanding that boats anchored alongside each other must

each have at least one line to shore.

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