Knots & Lines
Whippings That Last Decades
Lavinia Sinclair examines a sailmaker's whipping put on by a Lunenburg rigger in 1994. The rope around it has been replaced twice. The whipping is still good.
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Knots & Lines
Lavinia Sinclair examines a sailmaker's whipping put on by a Lunenburg rigger in 1994. The rope around it has been replaced twice. The whipping is still good.
Knots & Lines
Mira Iyer spent a weekend with a small-craft instructor in Cochin Harbour learning the trade-name skills that working sailors call simply ropework.