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.
And the entire standing and running rigging would be replaced within one year on passage. A ship on a two year voyage would depart its home port with an entire replacement in the hold. If the ship did not expect to enter a port, say a whaling ship, where it could expect to purchase cordage, it would carry multiples of replacements.
So much used cordage lying about that sailors got very good at macrame and inventing new knots. And of course decorative splicing. I have spliced hawsers the size of what is shown here. It is satisfying work.
'Zit knit one, purl two or visa versa?
ReplyDeleteWhen this guy "splices the main brace" he knows what he's doing.
ReplyDeleteAmazing that a sailing ship of the line needed miles of ropes
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DeleteAnd the entire standing and running rigging would be replaced within one year on passage. A ship on a two year voyage would depart its home port with an entire replacement in the hold. If the ship did not expect to enter a port, say a whaling ship, where it could expect to purchase cordage, it would carry multiples of replacements.
DeleteSo much used cordage lying about that sailors got very good at macrame and inventing new knots. And of course decorative splicing.
I have spliced hawsers the size of what is shown here. It is satisfying work.
The "ropery" in Chatham England still makes this stuff. It was the longest brick building in the world when originally built.
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