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3826. The boatswain's chair is a very impcrtal1t article of ship's
furniture, and ashore house painters, flagpole climbers and steeple-
26 jacks cannot get along without it. This is the simplest form made,
with slotted ends in the seat and a bowline knot in the rope.
3827. A more finished and safer chair is made with holes in the
seat. The seat strap is fastened in the holes with two i\!lATIHEW
WALKER KNOTS, and there is a becket seized in at the top, to which
the pendant is bent.
3828. A more stable boatsu'ain's chair is suspended at four corners
and has a double becket seized in. The two knots are MATIHEW
WALKERS.
3829. The most approved strap tor a boats~l;ain's chair is the one
, .. illustrated here. The ends are short spliced on the bottom, and the
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• • bights are seized together where they cross. The seized-in double-
eyed becket has two sets of crossing turns, and altogether the chair
is as safe as call be.
3830. An elaborate boatswain's chair that is so rigged in order to
J8 3S be bent to a becket on a tackle block. After it is bent to the tackle
the end of the strap is adjusted to its own THIMBLE EYE and secured
with a BECKET HITCH. An interesting feature of this is the DOG's
POINT on the end of the strap, which make~ the BECKET HITCH
doubly secure.
3831. A method of shortening svling ropes ashore by seizing in a
round turn under the seat. The seizing should have crossing turns .
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3832. The more common method is to tie an OVERHAND KNOT in
the bight; this is very difficult to untie, and a DOUBLE FIGURE-EIGHT
KNOT is better. These loops are much favored when the swinger ha~
a ground crew to assist. It offers an excellent handhold.
3833. I have seen an adjustable swing made as illustrated. The rop"
ends, after passing through THIMBLE EYES on the seat straps, were
first rove through the strands of the standing part of the ropes and
then made fast with ROLLING HITCHES, presumably beyond the
reach of the younger children. The ends of the ROLLING HITCHES
3830 were seized (not shown).
3834. A knotted bathing ladder for a small boat. The knot is givt:n
.' . '. by Bocher. It is very comfortable for bare feet and it has the advan-
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tage that it may be stowed anywhere and will not mark or bruise
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other stowed articles. Take a piece ()f 2 ~ -inch (circumference) rope
and middle it. Leave a loop at the center and seize in an eye. At a
distance of one foot from the eye tie the series of knots that are pic-
tured. Splice the ends together or else leave them long and put a
MATIHEW WALKER KNOT in each end. A somewhat similar knot, that
is perhaps more difficult to tie, is given as '# 800.
3835. This chock ladder, also for barefoot u~e, is given by Paul N.
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. - - .'.-, Hasluck. It would seem that there might be a tendency to spin, in
• which case, if used as a bathing ladder, toes might be pinched. But
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hanging free over the stern of a boat or from the branch of a tree,
it would do nicely. The chocks are turned, about five inches in
"38 '52. 3833 diameter with lengthwise holes about seven eighths of an inch in
diameter. The ropes should be a little smaller than the holes; if of
the same size, they may swell and split the chocks. Put a THII.,lBLE
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