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by no means a recent invention, for I have an old one made of linen

homespun canvas.

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38] 3. The simplest biTll11110ck clew is madc by holding an iron

ring in a visc and driving a nail in the bench ahout t\,·o feet away. A

number of turns are taken through thc ring and around the nail.
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381S' When sufficient in number, the upper part is sen"cd tightl~' O\'er,

close up to the ring. Netted hammocks are geneLlll.,' reinforced

with ropes along the edges. A slllall rope twice the lengrh of the

hammock is middled through the ring and the turns in rhe light llla-

terial are taken in sucp way as to cover it. The splice is taken at the

other end, where it is served over in making the other clew. Suffi-

cient netting is made between the two clews to suit the length of the

boltrope.

3814. A Pullman hanrmock clew is made so that the length of the

hamlllock has three adjustments. Each end has two loops, one being

llladc of the side rope, the other of the mcsh material. The overall

length is about five feet ten inches. Everv berth on a small boat
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should be provided with a hammock of this sort to hold clothes.

3815. A seized clew is made around two nails. The center section

is grafted or served over, and a thimble is seized in with a rollnd

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seIZIng.

3816. Na'!:y clews are made of either six or twelve lengths of

nettle stuff; twelve was the older practice. These :Ire middled and

the eye is either grafted, ringbolt hitched, or served over. They

are then seized together either with or without a thimble. A sword

mat is started and, after all twelve ends are worked once or twice,

two ends, one at each side, are laid out each time the warps are

passed, in the manner described for "shouldering" ()\II 34(3). Some

old seamanship books say that the last pair shollid be half knotted.

But the best practice is to seize them.

38] 7. An old boat gripe that I have examined was made as follows:

Twelve strands were mid dIed, alild the center section Tillgbolt

hitched. The strands were brought together, seized and then laid up

into a six-foot length of sword matting. At the bottom end the

strands were made into an ARTIFICIAL En:, which \\"as ringbolt

hitched as far as possible and then buttonholed across the matted

part.

3818. A Spanish hcmTmock clew is made with six lengths of ma-

terial middled. The twelve strands that are formed are served from

the ring down and every four turns two opposite strands are laid out.

The end of the service is finished off around the two last strands.

3819. A sword mat ring clew is made as pictured with six lengths

of material in a way similar to ~ 3 816. The ring is hitched over (see

pages 569, 570).

3820. The sailor's hammock is of heavy canvas six feet long and

three feet wide with a selvage at both edges. At the head and foot

is a tabling with twelve eyelet holes to which the nettles are made

fast as pictured. Every hammock clew has a lanyard for slinging

spliced in.

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