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Knotting Matters 38 ISSUE 38 JANUARY (WINTER) 1992 ISSN 0959-2881 THE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF THB INTBRNATlONAL GUILD OF KNOT TYERS ISSUE No. 38 JANUARY 1992 PRESIDENT Stuart GRAINGER PAST PRESIDENTS Percy BLANDFORD Geoffrey BUDWORTH Eric FRANKLIN - Jan VOS GUILD ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (RENEWABLE 1ST JANUARY: SECRETARY: Frank Harris Juniors (Under 16 ye~lU;)I ••..•.....•...•. £4.00 14 Games House Springfield Grove O1arlton SerliOI.s.............. £14.00 LONDON SE7 7TN England £19.00 Tel: 081 8586728 or UK+81 8586728 Corporate . By Arrangement EDITOR: Taxpayers inDK " We would preferacoV'enanted Gordon PERRY SUbscription as we can then recover the tax paid. 171 London Road HORNDEAN Except as. otherwise indicated, copyright in Knotting Hampshire Matters is reserved to the International Guild of Knot P080HH Tyers c IGKT 1991. Copyright in members' articles published in Knotting Matters is reserved to the Tel: 0705 592808 authors and permission to reprint should besought from the author and editor. All sources. of qUotations printed in Knotting Matters are acknowledged The INTERNATIONAL GUILD OF KNOT TYERS is a UK REGISTERED CHARITY #802153 1 Firstly - A Happy New Year to you all walk across the boarder into Spain, - and now that you all have your new where, I noticed in several restaurants diaries don't forget to insert a and bars rather good 'knot boards' all reminder to "Write to the editor of of Spanish origin. I was not able to KM". Secondly thank you for the ascertain exactly who had made them letters of encouragement and but there is obviously an untapped comments on the new style; I hope I source of new members in Spain can maintain and even improve on the which those of you who holiday there content and layout in the future. might like to look into - if you see any work please try and find out Well, since the last edition I've had a where it came from and let us know. I month at sea in the Mediterranean, am catching up on the correspondence visiting Cyprus, Turkey, Sicily and slowly but for those of you that have Gibraltar followed by a visit to not had a response to your mail yet, Scotland before Christmas, and you will, shortly after I have put this another to the more remote regions, edition of KM to bed. and back to Gibraltar since. Non of the visits have been particularly knotty, Keep the articles and letters flOWing. except perhaps for Gibraltar and a Ed. REMINDERS HAVE YOU PAID YOUR 1992 SUBSCRIPTION YET? (See Title page for new rates) 10th BIRTHDAY - GIFT OF WORK TO THE GUILD (See page 25 - KM37) A.G.M. - OUR 10TH ANNIVERSARY- The Venu: CHARLTON HOUSE, CHARLToN VILLAGE, CHARLTON, LONDON SE? 8RE The Date: APRIL 25th 1992 2 From - The NETHERLANDS running voluntary classes all through the winter for. 20 people while in Ian Hoefnagel reports... :Rotter.dam Ian and Louis have a class of 17. The Dutch have been Very busy throughout 1991, beginning with a 2 day Harbour Festival .at Dordrecht From which was very well visited, followed by another show during the meeting THE SOUTH WEST of old, but still working, sailing (PENINSULA) GROUP ships. Sadly two shows programmed for Den Helder had to be cancelled Denis Murphy tells of the groups because their driVer was ilL Back to participation in NAVY DAYS 1991 at Dordrecht in September Ineke Kok PLYMOUTH. It turned out to be the and lan put on a show in_an old best show the group had done for many peoples home. Ineke also put on a years with local .group members Denis display of work in hospital where she and Barbara Murphy supported by had undergone an operation. lan Vos George Storer, Ray Tucknott, Robert and TH Slyderman hayealso mounted Merry, Dave Webb and Edna Gibson individual exhibitions. together with yisitors. from A glorious day with 16ts of sunshine Wellingbo[(mgh, Fred Carrington and and plenty of visitors marked the Albert Burton and from Nottingham Inland Waterways show at Rotterdam, Bernard Cutbush. which Was also the venUe for displays A s{>lendid display of Fancy:Ropework at the Maritime Museum._Some 23 caused tremendous interest among the members supported the Maritime 60,000 people Who Visited Navy Days. Museum show, which was held on the People were shown \tar.ious working 31st August and 1st September in the displays from Sea Cadets tying Matts. Great Hall. On day one nine members and Lanyards - Otie Cadet working for took part with display boards, mat the Duke of Edinburgh's GOLD award making for children, macrame' with in Fancy Ropework ~ to an enormous the emphasis on teaching children. Turk's Head by :Ray Tucknott, and the FlOds Hin meanWhile was outside ever. inler.esting knitting and cords by re~rigging a 3 mastedschooner (his Edna Gibson. All in all a Very good profession) - by all accounts a very advertisement fo.r the Guild. successfuLshow. The Scheveningen members are 3 'George PASE: writes.... #1681, #1734, #1798, #1799, #1854, #1855, #1856 or #1993. Ashley says that knots of "a different form, a different way of tying, or a Ashley must have been aware of the different use, constitute a distinct problem but did not have our Guild to knot". In that case, his drawings and obtain a consensus of informed text of the Rolling or Magnus Hi tch opinion. What do you think? are misleading; and he adds to the MelHin, Stanton by Bridge, DERBY confusion throughout his book by DE7 1HT, England. repeating these knot names inconsistently in various guises, 000000000 including the Midshipman's Hitch and Geoffley BUDWORTH replies... Adjustable Hitch. Dear Gordon, There is some sense in returning to the older name; and I suggest the double­ Thank you for the chance to add a crossed turns version the knot post-script to George Pask's letter (#1753) should be known as the sorting out Ashley and the Rolling or Magnus Hitch, with the name Rolling Magnus Hitches. Hitch kept for the single-crossed As Percy BIandford pointed out on variants (#1734 & #1736). page 17 of KM4 in 1983, it depends O1ange 'Rolling Hitch' to 'Magnus whose books you read ; or, in my case Hitch' where it occurs in the text of who taught you. The 70-year-old #167, #1729 & #1735. sailing master who showed me how to hitch for a lengthwise pull over 40 Delete 'Magnus Hitch' in years ago stressed the importance of #1791 and #1800 (which could be the double-crossed diagonals and called an Adjustable Rolling Hitch). In called it a ROLLING Hitch. So I side #61 & #255 insert a subordinate clause with Percy. in brackets '(otherwise, or previously known as a Magnus or Mariner's For more than a century nearly every Hitch)'. writer on knots has labelled that hitch to rope or spar with a lengthwise load #1994 is the reverse the Rolling as a Rolling Hitch. Most also show the Hitch, not the Midshipman's version with the loaded party trapped Two round turns & two half hitches beneath two overlapping turns. Today, (#1884) is no longer a Rolling Hitch. the Royal Yachting Association insists No textual change is then needed for its tens of thousands of novice dinghy #62, #503, #1027, #1190, #1465, 4 sailors ate taught the hitch to attach their painters to the instructor's power boat tow rope at the start and end ofa day's sailing. I guess it's too late, George, for any roe to resurrect the name Magnus by Rob CHtSNALL. RSc.(Hons), Hitch (except - perhaps - for that REd. relative of the Roband Hitch with load at right angles to its point of The direct Sheet Bend (Ashley's #66) attachment). I see no problem with seems to be more secure in hawser­ the Midshipman's and Taut Line laid lines, especially those made of (guying) Hitches. Trying to link them natural fibres; but I have found the with either the Magnus or Rolling oblique, left-hand, version (#67) to be Hitch is as tenuous as calling two half more secure inkernmantel (sheath &; hitches a dove Hitch. core) and some braided ropes. A distinction should be made between Anyone else care to join the debate? knot strength and knot security. The 7 Hazel Shaw, TONBRIDGE, Kent, direct Sheet Bend appears to be TNlO 3QE, England. slightly stronger. I used foul' types of test to reach these ADYERTISEMENT conclusions: ITH La) gradually increasing loads producing failure, using a gauge or dynamometer: change is as good as a rest! So_why ot test your knotting skills Using (b) SUdden loads applied by dropping eather thonging? weights, using a dynamometer, ot counting the number of drops until or the enthusiast, Bttice Grant's failure occurred; cyclopedia. of Leather Braiding ill give you plenty of ideas to (c) manually tugging, causing the knot xtend your repertoire, to tighten or come undone; Send 5.00 for a bag of scrap leather (d) simultaneously loading two onging of various thicknesses and different bends tied in the same cord olour to: until the weaker one failed. oger PERRY, 436 Idle Road, More empirical data is needed, RADFORD, West Yorkshire, BD2 especially to determine where and AR. 01' Tel 0274 630162 anytime for how rope fails, with attention paid to urther information. the relative behaviour of natural and manmade fibres. 5 Keith HOWARD Was giventhis diagram of Leonardo's Knot by one of his Scouts who asked ifhe had any further information On it Keith has been unable to find anything in his books: Can anyone help? " Anyone ever tried it? 6 Jan HOEFNAGEL writes.. crowds gathered as disaster loomed.
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