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DECORATIVE MARLINGsPII(E SEAMANSHIP (APPLIED KNOTS)
3498. A MOUSE or mousing (plural "MOUSES") is a knob that is
raised on the messenger to prevent nippers from slipping. Enough
spun yarn is wound around the messenger to form a shallow knob.
Then a small rope is worked through the strands of the rope and
jammed against the MOUSE much in the same way that a snaking is
added to a whipping. The two ends are reef knotted.
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3499. A MOUSE on a stay was formerly of spun yarn, but Lever, in -
1808, recommends that narrow parceling, maliled down, be used in-
stead. This method of "parsling" was first mentioned by Falconer in
1769. "MOUSES" are grafted over and the grafting is carried down
the stay a short distance. Then, when the stay is served, the ends of
the grafting are covered over.
3500. Puddening an anchor ring is serving it with several parallel
lengths of small rope. Lever describes it as made with five. These
are stopped onto the ring and, after being set up with a heaver and
trailer, are seized and snaked. The method of employing the heaver
is described under worming (* 33 37 ).
3501. A pudding was formerly a pad to protect a mast where it is
crossed by a yard. Later it was any sort of a soft fender. The name
comes from bagpudding. Brady (1841) says, "If intended for a yard
generally it is covered with leather or rawhide, if for a mast it is . ,.
pointed over for neatness." - •
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Puddings are also used for fenders. 35"00
An EYE SPLICE is put in both ends of a short piece of rope and
spun yarn is wound around it. When the shape is satisfactory the
pudding is marled and covered either with grafting or hitching.
Nowadays they are often canvas-covered.
One of the neatest ways to make a pudding is as follows: Take a
piece of ha\'lser and splice in two THIMBLE EyES for the ends, leav-
ing all ends very long for crowning. Whip all strands and tuck them
twice. (Tuck bights instead of ends, and draw the ends through
afterward to prevent torsion.) Raise the pudding with old strands,
first, and finish with spun yarn. Crown both sets of strands to the
right until they meet. Side splice (* 2828) extra strands as needed,
an equal number at each end. When the pudding is completely cov-
ered, lay opposite ends "in and out" and scatter the joints before
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3502. A dolphin is started the same as a pudding but is not padded.
An eye is spliced in each end of a short rope and the rope is wormed
and parceled, and then grafted over.
3503. The bow fender of a towboat is similar to a pudding, being
large enough and soft enough to allow a tug to push directly against
the side of the ship. Sometimes bow fenders are made of punch
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matting, thrummed, stuffed and sewed together on the back, and --;::c. .c:>.
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sometimes they are hitched over. They may be made around dol- _"c:,"
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phin~ with several THIMBLE EYES spliced in; by means of these they
are lashed into place. ... ,
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3504. A dolphin is also the name for a series of fenders, made on
one rope, which pass in a continuous line below the gunnel of a
boat. The ends are lashed at the stern. These are made as described
for *3501.
3505. A fisherman'S fender. Fishermen's gear is essentially prac-
tical, although often far from shipshape. This fender consists of sev-
eral turns of an old hawser served over with smaller rope. The ends
of the latter are rove through the end turns of the former.
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