Tips of Tie Marine Knots

Posted by on January 15, 2012 No comments

Know Your Knot Lingo

All sailors need to understand the parts of a rope before they tie a knot. Understand these terms and you will be on your way to knot-tying success.

Bitter end – either end of a piece of line (all line has two bitter ends). You hold the bitter end in one hand and the standing part in the other hand to tie a knot.

Standing Part -The idle, inactive part of a line. Knots are tied around the standing part.

Bight – formed when one bitter end forms a “U”-shape with the standing part of a line.

Loop – formed when one bitter end crosses over or under the standing part to form an “O”-shape

Knot – a general term for knots, bends, and hitches.

Bend – bends tie a line onto another line, mast, boom, becket, block, or rail. Read more »

Some Creative Coins to Create

Posted by on December 24, 2011 No comments

Okay, time to be creative now. These Custom Coins could really test your wits and skills in creating something very absolutely attractive. You may be in the middle of doing some of your project right now. And this project just happens to do with giving gifts or collecting money from the people or even preparing for a party of your dearest friends or schoolmates. In whichever occasion, these coins are truly one of your best options to make people remember about the event dearly. But, needless to say, this must have anything to do with your own creativity as well.

Any of these Lapel Pins would have been perfect for most of your projects or events. You may want to give some mementos or just usual tokens to anyone or someone special. Everything will do with these pins. Come to think of it, you could really try to create some pins out of your own interests, though. This is just for the saying, but you got to admit there is some idea there, really: Probably, you just visited a memorable place, a zoo, for crying out loud. And you fall in love with the elephant, hence your trunk-pins! Read more »

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