Scope of Presentation

• Marlinspike
• Knots, bends and hitches
• Deck Seamanship
• Painting

Marlinspike Seamanship

• The art of handling and working with fiber and wire rope
• Includes knotting, splicing, serving, and fancy work
• Uses:
  • Tying up during mooring and docking
  • Rigging aloft or over the side during painting
  • Replenishment of supplies
  • Highline transfers

Rope

• Manufactured from wire, fiber, and combinations of both
• Fiber rope/line is fashioned from natural or synthetic fibers
• Fiber rope commonly referred to as "line" on ships
• Wire rope referred to as "rope", "wire rope", or "wire"
• "Line" is a piece of rope in use or cut for a specific purpose

Construction of Line

• Navy lines are either three-strand, braided, or plaited
• Three-strand line:
  • Fibers twisted into yarns/threads
  • Yarns twisted in opposite direction into strands
  • Strands twisted in first direction to make line
  • Lines twisted into cable
• Number and direction strands are twisted determine lay of the line
  • Strands twisted to the right = right-laid line

Use and Care of Line

• Coil right-laid line right-handed or clockwise; flake down braided and plaited line
• Keep line from touching stays, guys, or other standing rigging
• When surging line around bitts, take off enough turns so the line does not jerk, but surges smoothly
• Cut and splice if line is chafed/damaged; splice is safer than damaged section
  • Do not cut a line without supervisor's permission
• Do not lubricate the line
• Whip all line ends
• Inspect natural fiber line frequently for deterioration; white, powdery residue indicates internal wear
• Dragging a line over sharp/rough objects cuts/breaks the outer fibers
  • Particles picked up when line is dragged on ground eventually cuts inner strands
• Natural fiber line deteriorates about 30% in 2 years from weathering
  • Natural fiber line more than 3 years old from supply should be returned as uneconomical

Small Stuff

• Line 1 1/2 inches or less in circumference
• Size specification governed by the number of yarns
• Round line:
  • Three-strand, right-laid tarred hemp line used for seizing and servings
• Sail twine:
  • Small stuff laid up right-handed by machine
  • Used for servings when a fancier job can be done with marline is desired
• Cod line:
  • Light, white line formerly used in hammock clews
  • Used for decorative purposes

Securing Ends

• Never leave a line end dangling loose without whipping prevent unlaying
• Line end will begin to unlay on it's own
• Put temp plain whipping on anything, even rope yarn prevent fraying

Knots

• Rope is tied back on itself , or where it is tied in one end only
• EX: Stopper Knot
• Bowline is a good knot with many uses, whenerver a loop is needed
• EX: making a temp eye in a muring line
• A seamen use of the term knot is like using a line bent to itself, forms an eye or knob-
• Secures a cord or line around an object , EX: Package

Bends

• Normally used to join two lines together
• Square knot aka reef knot
  • Is bend two line together, but may jam + become untied
• A becket bend is to bend 2 lines together diff sizes

Bending to an hook, ring or spar

• Hich is to secure line to a hook, ring ,or spar, Various will be described
• A Hitch differs to a knot that its normally tied to a ring , spar or stanchion, or another line
• Not tied back on itself to form an eye or 2 bend 2 lines
• Rolling Hich is one ogf the useful important deck hiches

Sprlices

• Used to make permanent eyes or repairs in lines

Eye Splice

• Making an eye splice with manila/ synthetic lines must untwist strand from 4inches to 2 feet
• Depending size untwist the strand end of line at standing part tuck by unlaid strand
• Tucking From end into standing part

Short Splice

• Lines short spliced when enlarged diameter important

Slings

• Made of line with thier own ends short spliced together

Four classes of knots

• Class 1 knots - Knots in end of lines, used in fastening upon around Object
  • Overhand Knot- Use to knots make is Never/Alone
  • Bowline- Temp eye in end not- slip/jam
  • Running- convenient form running eye forming
  • Bowline- over ist Own form standing part
  • Bowlin on Bight slingman
  • French Bowline Has same bights
  • Spanish Bowline- Desireable boatswains chair
  • Sheep Shank shorten/Halh parts
  • Cat Paws tackle
  • Figure Eight End Unreling
  • Black Wall Hook Quickly
• Class 2 Knots knots bounding 2 gether
  • Squar/Reefs for reef bending
  • Granny mistake
  • Sneet/Becet betweendiffSize
  • Twobowlines together
  • Carrrik bends
  • Reeving
• Class 3 Knots
  • Fish Bends toupee
  • Roll Hiths parts
  • Twohalf Hitches securing
  • Clore/ratline spar/bollard
  • Half Hitches
  • Stropper Checkinh
  • Catspaw hook
• Class 4 Knots
  • Wallknots/ crowns ends
  • Crowds ends
  • Manrope made from line
  • Marhew hammocks strand

Wire Rope

• Basic Unir of is wire made from steel wire of metal varies size

• Wires together form a straind=

• Wireope is annealed stell

• Traction

• Improved

• Plow stell

Wire Rope cont...

• Varies according to propose which the rope The numer of wires/ strainds intended
• Is intended Together of form wire rope
• Designed for #s and #s
• The # of strainds / rope

• of wire s/ straind

Layers Of Wire Rope

• Right Regular Wires twisted left/Rope is right
• Left Regular lays/ wires are right/rope is left
• Right Lang Wires strainds/Rope right
• Reversed Lay - Strainds right/Wires alternating other

Deck Seamanship

• Embrance Practical side from knots navigation
• Including small boat handing tackle steering signaling
• In general rigging large part seamanship
• Standing of lines wires turnbucked gear supporting stacks
• Masts Top Sides
• Runing- hoisiting lowering weigting movable gear

Ground Tackle

• Equipment used anchoring /mooring anchors buoy mooring chain
• Chain/ Anchoe
• Material Used /synthetic line anchor
• Appendages shackles links detachable Pearshaped Mooring swirels wrences cablejacks
• OUTBOARDs anchor buoys

Type OF Anckor

• Anchored Design to bottom to ways hooking with one both their fluke / burying themselves complerely
• Used todays are by in today type Comon type
• LIGHT wigth stocks
• 2 flute anchor
• Stock ancdhor and mushroom anchors

Chamber Apandates

• Chamber navy stander ships reolaces

Anchor wind glass

• In board primarly chain achoring chain towing