Re: Gasket Hitch

On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:19:47 +0000, Pete Verdon
<usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>Thanks. I'd found that site, but I hadn't watched the video. Looks like
>at least one person agrees with what I thought it was. One further
>question, though - which end does one make the over-the-top loop with?
>In that video it seems to be the free end, not the one that's made fast,
>and that's also the way I've always done it (like you, not aware that it
>had a name). But since posting, I've come across a description that
>suggests (I think) that it should be part of the secured end, the
>section between fastening and coil, that's pulled over the top.
>
>Pete

Scratching head and thinking.

Well I'd be most inclined to use a gasket hitch when stowing a rope,
and because you tighten everything up I find it quite effective.

I suppose you could use it on the fall of a foresail halyard if you
were hanging it over a cleat on the mast. In which case you could make
it either in the standing (secured side of the rope) or the other. The
beauty of the way the video shows it is that actually don't need the
rope end to do the hitch - just sufficient slack in the rope (which
you would have as this would be just to tidy up after the rope had
been made fast).

But on the example of the halyard I take a loop from towards the
centre of the coil, pass it round the coil a couple of times and then
back up through the coil so the loop can then be hung over the
cleat.The weight of the rope keeps it all taught and together and
becuause it falls apart when taken off the cleat then its immediately
ready to run.

So a gasket hitch when I've a warp I want to throw about and maybe
store for weeks, and something a bit less secure for a halyard 'cos if
I'm having to let it run in a hurry, then the chances are I'm really
in a hurry.

Nick
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