Camp, Walter, 1859-1925, ed · New York, P. F. Collier & son · leaf 135
d; and 103 • sports and Games the amateur sailor should know how to splice an eyein the end of a piece of hemp or wire rope for thestrop of a tail block, and how to make a grommet, ora selvagee strop. I have already explained how to splice an eye ina rope, and how to make a grommet. For stroppinga… … Fig. 37. about half the circumference of the required strop.One end of a ball of rope-yarn is fastened to one ofthe nails, and the yarn is wound round the two nails(see Fig. 37) as tightly as possible, until the ringthus formed is sufficiently stout. Then the yarnsare tied together, or marled, at…
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