Engineer's Knot Board

[albertpachino]

A picture is worth a thousand words:

knots.jpg

[c.captain]

don't worry...I know plenty of GoM AB's who can't even tie those

[PR-9]

So that's why they always wear slip on boots

[c.captain]

then there is the other side of the coin...look at how far this seaman is able to toss his heaving line!




Goddamned seamen on most of the vessels I am on can't hit the dock with a heaving line after we're already alongside!

[ForkandBlade]

[QUOTE=c.captain;93762]don't worry...I know plenty of GoM AB's who can't even tie those[/QUOTE

It's the same in the Northeast. There must be a pandemic of granny knot AB's floating around. I love the old, " The rabbit comes out of the hole, around the tree and back in the hole again " bowline instructions.

[Sweat-n-Grease]

[QUOTE=ForkandBlade;93783]

don't worry...I know plenty of GoM AB's who can't even tie those[/QUOTE

It's the same in the Northeast. There must be a pandemic of granny knot AB's floating around. I love the old, " The rabbit comes out of the hole, around the tree and back in the hole again " bowline instructions.

Ah, the good old Boy Scout Manual ~

[Sweat-n-Grease]

A picture is worth a thousand words:

Oh my Gawd !!
That is so funny I almost spilled my morning coffee.
Thanks, albertpachino
I make a wonderful half hitch.

[Sweat-n-Grease]

Pretty good at the square knot too but there were times.

[Sweat-n-Grease]

One of my Pals, a Decky, has a Knot Board hanging in his living room, must be a thousand knots.
OK, I fibbed, at least 500.

[Bloodyshitcakes]

hehehehe...... engineers..

[Sweat-n-Grease]

hehehehe...... engineers..

I gotta wrench board hanging in my shop. Does that count?

[Bloodyshitcakes]

I gotta wrench board hanging in my shop. Does that count?

So long as the wrenches are outlined and the grip painted blue. Are they?

[Sweat-n-Grease]

So long as the wrenches are outlined and the grip painted blue. Are they?

Naa, nothing that fancy, just a large wooden pegboard and many hooks, kind of greasy though but it serves its purpose.

[exsubguy]

then there is the other side of the coin...look at how far this seaman is able to toss his heaving line!

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXG9Rf8jCuM

Goddamned seamen on most of the vessels I am on can't hit the dock with a heaving line after we're already alongside!

Notice how the dockside line handler is showing ZERO urgency in grabbing that line. Could it trouble these clowns to lengthen their stride a little?

[ForkandBlade]

Notice how the dockside line handler is showing ZERO urgency in grabbing that line. Could it trouble these clowns to lengthen their stride a little?

The line handler is probably a ILA union guy. He's moving at union speed! (If you thought you felt a jab at the ILA just then, you sir are correct!)

[c.captain]

The line handler is probably a ILA union guy. He's moving at union speed! (If you thought you felt a jab at the ILA just then, you sir are correct!)

and well done too!

you have also learned well my son and c.captain is pleased

[Sweat-n-Grease]

The line handler is probably a ILA union guy. He's moving at union speed! (If you thought you felt a jab at the ILA just then, you sir are correct!)

You talking to me, ForkandBlade? I'm a Union Man, try me for size.

[Sweat-n-Grease]

and well done too!

you have also learned well my son and c.captain is pleased

There are times you seriously piss me off, my friend.

[c.captain]

There are times you seriously piss me off, my friend.

sorry to PO you S-n-G but glad you still used the term friend, my friend.

I hate to say but the union shuffle if rather epidemic...just go aboard a Washington State Ferry sometime. It's downright painful!



.

[captfish]

I hate to say but the union shuffle if rather epidemic...just go aboard a Washington State Ferry sometime. It's downright painful!

But I suppose all the non union guys down in the GoM run around like jack rabbits?? Not all of us union guys suffer from this so called shuffle!