Me and my older brother got to go to a Jamboree but for the life of me I don't remember where that was. Darn. I do remember hundreds of boys pitched in to build a sky high lookout...like Lincoln Logs. I also remember the suit of Virgil Grissom was on display the year after the accident. Judging by the suit, he was small!
In the days of sail, a ship on a long passage would carry at least one spare set of the entire rigging. A three mast schooner would carry two miles or more of rope in the rigging. Miles of rigging would be replaced perhaps as short as every six months. This was after the ropes had already been tarred and served. A three year voyage, not at all uncommon, would necessitate multiple changes of the rigging. Even if the rigging was still serviceable, passing around, say Cape Horn would feature rerigging to endure the fearsome weather.
Pretty cool - An isolated village in Peru has been rebuilding their grass suspension bridge yearly for around 500 years. https://www.elitereaders.com/queswachaca-bridge-hand-built-inca-tradition-made-straw/. CC
If you're not feeling some deep gratitude for modern life and its conveniences, go work with these chaps for a few days.
ReplyDeleteNow THAT will have some skill set to have after TSHTF.
ReplyDeleteWe did this in the Boy Scouts. It wasn't easy, your arms get tired and your hands frayed. But it was exciting to see the fruits of your efforts.
DeleteYeah, Boy scouts too! Troop 108 in the Cascade council?
DeleteI forget the Troop number. It was Haleiwa, O'ahu.
DeleteMe and my older brother got to go to a Jamboree but for the life of me I don't remember where that was. Darn. I do remember hundreds of boys pitched in to build a sky high lookout...like Lincoln Logs. I also remember the suit of Virgil Grissom was on display the year after the accident. Judging by the suit, he was small!
In the days of sail, a ship on a long passage would carry at least one spare set of the entire rigging. A three mast schooner would carry two miles or more of rope in the rigging. Miles of rigging would be replaced perhaps as short as every six months. This was after the ropes had already been tarred and served. A three year voyage, not at all uncommon, would necessitate multiple changes of the rigging. Even if the rigging was still serviceable, passing around, say Cape Horn would feature rerigging to endure the fearsome weather.
ReplyDeleteThey basically would carry enough spares to build another ship... Thats how Hernan Cortes was able to get home
Delete"Worm and parcel with the lay, turn and serve the other way."
DeleteThe things you learn at knuckledraggin'. Priceless! Nemo
ReplyDeleteSame here, Rick. Plus, though we didn't start from raw flax, we also didn't have the neat spinning machines.
ReplyDeleteA few more weeks with Biden in the WH and this'll be a good instructional video for us.
ReplyDeleteLets go Brandon.
DeleteBiden is asshoe.
ReplyDeleteVery cool. Ohio Guy
ReplyDeleteWomen's work.
ReplyDeleteWhat are they making
ReplyDeleteRope.
DeletePretty cool - An isolated village in Peru has been rebuilding their grass suspension bridge yearly for around 500 years.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.elitereaders.com/queswachaca-bridge-hand-built-inca-tradition-made-straw/.
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