Identifier: harpersboatingbo01davi (find matches)
Title: Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gerard), 1870-1959, ed
Subjects: Boats and boating
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ig. 36).—A hitch employed in towingspars and logs, as it will not slip. Pass the end 1 of the ropearound the spar and lead it up and around the standing part2, then pass two or three turns with the end around its ownpart as shown in the illustration. Rolling Hitch (Fig. 37).—A very good method of clap-ping (fastening) a tail-block. Take a hitch with the tail 1;take another hitch over the first; pass the end under thestanding part 2, and twist the remainder of the tail roundthe rope, following the lay. A tail-block, being portable, is 214 MARLIN-SPIKE SEAMANSHIP convenient to make fast anywhere about decks or the rig-ging, and a rope being rove through this block, a purchase,called a whip, is created. Magnus Hitch (Fig. 38).—Some people confuse thishitch with the rolling hitch just described, but a comparisonof the two will explain the difference between them. Withthe end of the rope 1 pass two turns over the spar; carrythe end in front of the standing part 2; pass it again under
Text Appearing After Image:
the spar and bring it up through the bight. The value ofthis hitch is its insurance against slipping in the directionrepresented by the arrow. Catspaw Hitch (Fig. 39).—Like the Blackwall Hitch,this one is used for making a rope fast to a hook for hoist- 21S BOATING BOOK FOR BOYS ing purposes. Seize the bight of the rope in your twohands, and by turning the wrists form the two loops, thenhang these loops on the hook as in Fig. 40. Sheepshank Hitch (Fig. 41).—A quick way of shorteninga rope without cutting it is to convert a portion of it intoa shape known as a sheepshank. Gather up the spare ropeand lay it in parallel lines as shown. These parallel linesmay be represented by any number, according to the quan-tity of spare rope and the length of the sheepshank. In theaccompanying diagrams we show the smallest sheepshankthat can be made, consisting of three parallel lines. Afterforming the rope as shown in Fig. 41, take a half hitch withthe standing part 1 round the bight 4, and repe

Note About Images