And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, October 20, 2022
This cordage helps to keep the cannons in place, on the deck of the USS Constitution
"-not wormed, parceled, served, tarred. In Ashley's words, "Lubberly, and not to be countenanced..."
Why would anyone W,P,S a recoil rope? Strikes me as the work of a poser trying to cast about sailor talk. For one thing it would make it too stiff, for another, well it's just a recoil rope. That ship had 44 guns officially and 52 unofficially. That would be a lot of time and wasted, expensive resources to keep you and Ashley happy. It doesn't look like the the Royal Navy worried about being called lubberly either; http://www.houseoftheorangemonkey.co.uk/monkey/trips/trip1461615.htm
Paracord’s second cousin…
ReplyDeleteBeautiful rope work for a practical purpose.
ReplyDelete-not wormed, parceled, served, tarred. In Ashley's words, "Lubberly, and not to be countenanced..."
Delete"-not wormed, parceled, served, tarred. In Ashley's words, "Lubberly, and not to be countenanced..."
DeleteWhy would anyone W,P,S a recoil rope? Strikes me as the work of a poser trying to cast about sailor talk. For one thing it would make it too stiff, for another, well it's just a recoil rope. That ship had 44 guns officially and 52 unofficially. That would be a lot of time and wasted, expensive resources to keep you and Ashley happy. It doesn't look like the the Royal Navy worried about being called lubberly either;
http://www.houseoftheorangemonkey.co.uk/monkey/trips/trip1461615.htm
Gotta love the Boatsman Mates.
ReplyDeleteCan a Chief still get his own tug boat, or do the Navy fuck that up too.
"Boatswain's (i.e. Bos'n's) Mates."
DeleteOh man that looks like a noose, somebody call the FBI
ReplyDeleteYou sure don't want cannon rolling around the deck while engaging the enemy. Make fast.
ReplyDeleteMarlinespike seamanship
ReplyDeleteSTO