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Charles Trépanier
Ye old Cat-o-nine
yarr Matey there is a mutiny brewing up  bring me the ye old cat o nine ! My first cat o nine it is based and have all the same specs as the one i found and like in the Greenwich royal museums link here : https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-69109
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Charles Trépanier
A Game of Shadows
Can you find the imposter in this photo ? if you think you have found it leave a comment and good luck  😛  
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Frits Scholer
Knot recipes in cplusplus
I have recently updated my knot recipes to cplusplus instead of C. You have to make the executables yourself. But then you can get recipes for column code knoits, rowcoded knots, standard herringbone pineapple knots or perfect pineapple knots. Everything is in my github knots repository:...
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Richard Norman
Bell ringers' 'Knot'
I guess you all know that bell ringers 'tie' the bell ropes up else they languish on the floor   Tie is a euphemism as it is not a knot in a ‘tied’ sense   It is as it is so that it can be easily 'untied'    I have been looking for a replacement for the knot(s) in use     Has anyone any...
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Charles Kenyon
Length of tail in working end when tying knots - any authority for six or twelve times circumferance?
I teach Marlinespike Seamanship at the Hoofer Sailing Club at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.   I have been told by people I trust that for most knots there should be a tail in the working end of six times the diameter of the line. For bowlines, the tail should be twelve times the working...
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Juergen Sartor
JSa Pulley Block
JSa Pulley Block resp. JSa Tackle A pulley block or tackle without pulley or block. 😉 Yesterday I saw a post about how someone used a Spanish Windlass with a lot of effort to pull a bush with roots out of the ground. To do this, he had to twist the ropes umpteen times with an iron rod in order...
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Charles Trépanier
Mason Jar with is doily
my latest work a mason jar with is rope doily all made with square knots the patern of the doily and the mason jar are the same. Charles.
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Steve Drew
Creating a Catalogue of Knots?
Based on a letter from Frank Brown in KM161, I decided to posit his question regarding the catalogue and identification of knots.  With apologies to Frank, I will try to summarize the main points and questions below. Is it time to form a formal body to examine new knots? What would be the form...
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Benjamin Lowings
Noeud de machard
Dear IGKT brains-trust,  I'm a sailor with an appetite for knot-tying but no expertise... I'm doing some research and Mr Richard Hopkins has already generously replied to a general query of mine about a potential book of knots... I guess this might be the first of a few enquiries here... In a...
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Kaspars Vandāns
Advances in rigorous knot identification and classification.
Hey all. I've spent some time browsing the old forums and I can't quite understand the present state of things in regards to knot identification. It seems surprising to me that people still, after tying a knot, have to ask for expert opinion to try and figure out if it's a new knot or not. We all...
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David J Perry
A terminal end loop knot similar to a bowline
I  am trying to find a terminal end loop knot that I have used for years in place of a bowline.  However, I cannot find it in any books on knots and knot tying that I have ever seen.  Is there somewhere I can go to find a very extensive collection of terminal end loop knots that includes more than...
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James Garnett
Radium Release Hitch
Hello IGKT members, this is my first post in the forum.  I am a Search & Rescue volunteer, so I have a keen interest in practical knotwork and hitches.  I hope that this post is acceptable for this forum.  I write to inform you about a relatively new hitch (it's only about 25 years old) that...
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Paul Eppleston
Knots in other formats
Confectionary knot! https://www.tumblr.com/ludmila199/756902288206053377?source=share
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Shaun Moen
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Dave Root
KnotMaker 2.3
KnotMaker is a free Windows program for drawing knots. Version 2.3 is now available at https://daveroot.neocities.org/knotmaker/, which fixes a bug that caused an error message when saving a drawing. Also, the Layer Inspector (read only mode) icon is now a toggle. Why didn't I think of that...
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Shaun Moen
Traditional knotwork around a wheel
I just wanted to post some recent knotwork around a boat wheel.  It seems the old forum is still active, but I'm not sure how to engage with the community since it's not excepting new registrations.   There doesn't seem much activity on the new forum either.  Am I missing something? ... Anyway...
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Christoph Mangutsch
@ my "Worrisome Bend" post
Deer Moderators,   Have I posted my first attempt at a forum article  - ("Worrisome Bend" in "Chit Chat") - correctly or should I have tried so in the OLD forum's archive? It DID say "successfully posted", so I'm confused. You see "Worrisome Bend" doesn't show up on my screen no matter how...
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George Grubb
If you only know 3 knots...
Hello everyone. I teach technical theatre at a university which includes the work of stagehands and riggers. For many years, I have taught 3 basic knots in any class I could squeeze it in to. In my professional experience, a stagehand who can tie a few knots will be the one who gets hired back. I...
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Christoph Mangutsch
Worrisome Bend
Hi Call me "james". I'm new to the forum, still feeling very self-conscious. What with all these experts rendering verdicts on all these intricate knots... Recently, I've "invented" a decorative new bend I derived from an extension of a popular modern bend. I so wanted to share this with...
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Dario Abdulrehman
ABOK #643
I tried to tie it using Ashley's cork board method. However the end result doesn't have a disc shape as in the book, instead it is just a spherical shape. Did anyone try to tie this knot and get the disc shape?  
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