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DECORA TIVE i\1ARLINGSPIKE SEAMANSHIP (APPLIED KNOTS)

A NOOSE is put around one end of this, with the end of a small

rope, and a series of turns (not too close together) is taken to the

bottom end, where a HALF HITCH is made with the working end

around the last tum. The lead is then deflected at right angles across

the end of the sack or carton to the back, where a series of under-

hand round turns is taken around each rope that is crossed. This is

shown in the upper left drawing. When the front and back arc com-

pletely covered, the lead is again deflected at right angles, in the

same. way as before, and the n~maining four sides are completely

covered. The bumper is finished off with a CLOVE HITCH and the end

is tucked out of the way. 3510

3510. An OVERHAND ROUND-TURN HITCHING is a bit simpler than

the former, as the end is stuck under one strand only at a time, in-

stead of two. The process of making the bumper and winding the

first set of turns is the same. These two are made generally of small

stuff instead of single strands. They are often a part of the equip-

ment of , brewery trucks, where they are used to drop kegs from the

tailboard.

3511. FOOTROPE KNOT fender. Two sections of rope are required

'and these are wormed, parceled and canvas-covered. Middle the

ropes. Seize an eye in the center of one, then reeve the other rope

through this eye and seize them together snugly. Serve them for a

length equal to the proposed knot, and tie a WALL at the bottom,

which completes the first drawing. Lead the four ends upward in a

right helix and stop them at the eye. Crown the ends to the right

and tuck them downward, one til.!r at a time, over one and under one,

to the bottom. (The final tuck will be under two, which includes the

original WALL.) After drawing up, seize the four ends.

3512. An old sinnet fender of canvas-covered strands. An eye is

seized into a doubled rope, with a round seizing having five riding

turns. Then the rope is opened and the six canvas-covered strands

are l:tid up into SIX-STRAND ROUND SINNET ('/I< 3021) to the end, which

is canvas-capped, whipped with seven turns and snaked as '/I< 3454.

Two TURK'S-HEADS are added, of small stuff, about eighteen-thread

cotton rope. The upper one is a FIVE-LEAD, FOUR-BIGHT, THREE-PLY

K],;OT, the lower one a SIX-LEAD, FIVE-BIGHT, T HREE-PL Y ONE (sec

3S\2
Chapter 17).

3513. A TURK'S-HEAD fender of small hawser, made by Rodman

8wift. It provides a fender that is practically round and very neat.

If the TURK'S-HEAD is to be three-ply only, it will not require a core.

Tie a THREE-LEAD, FOUR-BIGHT TURK'S-HEAD ('/I< 1305), form an 35"14

eye with a bight near the center of the rope on the inside and put in

a throat seizing ('/1<3410) and a round seizing close to it. Follow the

lead around once with each end, and work taut with a marlingspike.

Serve or ring bolt hitch over the eye.

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3514. A second way is to worm a short rope with which to form

an eye, and then seize and cover the eye with RINGBOLT HITCHING

(!if 3604). Tie a round SPRITSAIL SHEET KNOT ('/I< 887) with the ends,

wind a little spun yam over the knot to round it out and place a

MONKEY'S FIST ('/I< 2206) over it.

3515. A FLATTENED TURK'S-HEAD makes an excellent fender for a

dinghy. The ends should be seized on the underside and the eye

made with a throat seizing in the outer plY.

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