beautiful, thanks j.brent i am new to this hobby i have be working on my 1st. project phantam for about 11 months . it is almost completed i have watched all of your videos over & over i could now have completed this without your help. thanks j. lindsey
Fastening to a belay pin is the same as fastening to a cleat, one round turn followed by a singular figure eight and a half hitch. Three strand rope always coils in a clockwise direction
Sorry, wrong, if you use a half or 'locking' hitch on a cleat or a pin the one turn isn't enough, the rope can slip and the locking hitch jamb so tight that you have to cut the rope, thats why she gives it three turns an NO lock, as you can hear her bosun confirm. I use a locking hitch but make it a 'slippery' hitch so in the worse case scenario it can be pulled out but that takes time and sometimes there isn't time and a line needs to be freed immediately, that's where her bosun is and wants his lines tucked under the figure of eights around the back of the pin.
Oh dear, she's wrong from the very beginning!! Thankfully the evidence is right there to support me. Look at the other lines, they ALL come down to the forward side of the pin, she'd be correct on the opposite side of the ship as the left side would be the forward side. Reason? Because you don't want the line crossing the front of the pin, it gets in the way of doing the figure of eight and hanging the coil. And you got it wrong too! You did your figure of 8 the wrong way around the pin AND you're coiling is the wrong direction, Clockwise with right hand rope! It goes clockwise around the top of the pin with right hand layed rope. I'm going to have to stop watching model makers videos, it doesn't help my blood pressure. Me? 45 years rigging and sailing square riggers around the world.
