... that Dan seems to find everywhere ...
One should beware that there might be a "squeaky wheel" syndrome:
that only the bad ones are captured for presentation. But, no, in the
cleat hitches I was pretty fair -- there was just that main one, maybe
another, fairly approximating *correctness*.
But re the "everywhere", it was interesting (and LIMITED scope, so far):
where some expensive yachts were moored, lines were "properly" cleated;
yet in some other marinas, with small craft, I found "spaghetti" securings.
Now, for the former, it could be that staff at the site were responsible
for some things (so, if they were savvy then all who were there got the
proper cleating?).
I'd hoped to get a look at a marina en route out of The Wildwoods but it
was tooooo good for the common man -- a gated community of boats!
There might yet be hope, and further looking. Then, again, the heavy
mooring lines of the commercial-fishing trawlers do have a most interesting
variety of often capsized knots (bowlines, Eskimo bowlines, anti-bowlines),
such that I wonder if capsizing is desired -- still doubt it, but ... .
Indeed, come to think of it, at one dock there were many of those
"left-handed" ("Cowboy" ...) bowlines, and I think that their purpose
is expressly to better resist capsizing -- my surmise (and of boats that
might have a common owner, or information-exchanging captains/crew).
... there are well made bowlines ...
And, tell me, what is the geometry of these bowlines? Joop make some remark
echoing the claim that the common bowlines having the end inside of the
eye can lead to it being pushed out of the knot!? I find this incredible,
and must remark that in about all cases of having-been-loaded bowlines
that I've seen, the end is pulled up and away from the eye by the draw
of the S.Part -- it remains nowhere near the eye to be pushed!
Attached first is the Common Bowline showing an extreme draw of
its end away from the eye; then comes the "Left-handed" bowline
with visible effect of the S.Part draw on the outside-positioned eye
such that it makes a broad "V"; this knot is resistant to capsizing.
--dl*
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