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figure 39.2
Cringles: are eyes formed in a bolt rope or sail edge, and used for sail
handling lines.
To make them, take a length of single strand about six times the
circumference of the cringle you want to form. Pass the strand under one
or two strands of the rope, and pull through one third of it (figure 40.1).
Take the shorter of the projecting ends of the single strand around the
rope and then wrap it three times around its longer end (figure 40.2).
Working with the longer end of the single strand, pass it through one or
two strands of the rope (figure 40.3), around the back of the rope and
