Rope tied to a thimble

Safie, may I suggest, whilst "splicing the mainbrace" you try splicing some rope - it is more therapeutic than knitting (and knitting is not very manly - even in the days of the guillotine across your ditch)... then there is other knotty stuff "old seadogs" are supposed to do to entertain themselves whilst sitting in the sun outside the local pub waiting to be GIVEN the next mug of booze.....

Good site Heinz, Life of brian - very - - - - - me?

 

Well that got all you hairy old salts going didn't it? mind you there bain't be too many o'ye complaining - so maybe the statement is true????

Actually the most awkward splice I every did was in three strand!!! No problem I hear you say - not really unless its in SEAMING TWINE! Gets a bit tricky at that size!

and Heinz, when was the last time you pointed and becketed a rope?? I ain't done any for a couple of years now ('bout 30) then it was a couple of manropes for a companionway!!

and yep, most modern sailors can't splice worth a ****, these days!!

 

I'll splice the mainbrace to that Eye me lads, drink hearty for tomorrow we may die? - Didn't some ******** of a naval captain offer this in preparation for an anticipated battle?

 

Aye, twas always the way in less unsophisticated days gone by, just before the battle they opened up the spirit locker and gave em all a few wets, stiffened up the backbone for the fight (and o' course if ye did fall it didn't hurt so much -you were to pissed to notice -bit of a bugger when you came round and found some swine had off with yer leg but hey that's life.............or death

 

Duckfeathers! If it's 3-strand I can splice it! Faster'n you, too!

 

I use FIDs with Spectra, Double Braid and the like.... As for the stranded stuff it takes my hands and a whipping hammer at the most. What the fudge else is relevant these days? I can't buy anything I can't splice as required so.... ?

You know those square rigger sailors can't sail for ****, put them in an Etchell and they are last round the course every time.... so...... what the fudge does that mean?

Ya see I can make irrelevant statements as well...

Go fish...

 

Meanz, it might be time to make this "the talk like a pirate" thread hijack or the "talk like a wharfie" thread & be usin' the eff word like a punctuation mark like where you get commas & full stops & more than once in a row as exclamation mark, great in place of a question mark too, man I love workin' on the waterfront where good old fashioned values rule & ye' can piont ye' rope at a becket & wash it all down with a fist full of gils & run ye damned manropes up the companionway all the way to ye bobstay wiv a cutlass in me teef as ye shwing in a broadside aaaarrrrhhh! Regards from Jeff

 

waikikin, It is after all in the dungeon, so what do you expect?

 

I'm sawy for swearin...... but dad, he said **** first ! .....

Got a picture of that Jeff?

 

A s**t load better than that you **** son of a ****, after all you are a civilised **** of a ***** arn't you.... well you b****d son of Gordon Ramsay... what have you got to say for yourself ?!!!!!!






























(bad humour)

 

Go **** yourself nicely is, I am advised quite an acceptable comment in Australia - f'ck it I cannot remember the case # look the effing thing up yourself my clever friend (around 2 years ago) - almost as good as an old statute in Queensland which made it a "criminal offence to expectorate on Queen Street in Brisbane..... sometimes the law is funny - even though it is often an *** "Hee-haw" kind not American for ********...

 

Apparently its legal to pee on the right rear wheel of a car. Supposedly an old law from the days of carriages that was never repeealed...

 

Sorry Meanz, aint got no scurvy pictures of that- need a panarama camera to get all the action see, now wheres me eye patch, parrot, hook & MUA card. I'm still meaning to get some internal seawind shots for ye but last I went down to the seawind I'd run right outa battery power & damn those digi cameras to Davy Jones if they dont chew the AAs like black powder in a broadside. All the best from Jeff.

 

Only if your a Hackney carriage driver, you were not allowed to leave your horse - in this quaint old country we STILL drive on the left (or is it the right side of the road) whereas you colonials tend to drive on the right (or wrong side of the road)! In which case you'd be peeing on the 'off rear wheel' where nobody could see you anyway -apart from the other drivers as they ran you down!

And I WAS FISHING, caught quite a bite as well

 

Yeah.... but you still know chit about Awstralia... we drive on the same bleeding side of the road as you lot.... its because we never had a revolution... you know like "you'll be first against the wall when it comes."

ya know sometimes the fisherman thinks they have a bite... but...? go fish

Jeff thanks for the thought! I will post pictures of the hard deck fiasco when I get down to making a mess! Playing with Hi Lube Vesconite and rudder pins at the moment!