Subject: RE: [baidarka] Lashing material for keel scarfs?
From: paul.connolly@honeywell.com
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 19:11:51 EDT
Bill,
I always tie off all my lashings. I'm not very dexterous and am not too
good at the nice whipping techniques. To avoid lumps made by the lashings
under the skin later - carve little channels for the lashings to lie in.
With a bit of care you can get the knots to lie in the holes drilled for the
lashings to go through. The trick to keeping things taught seems to be
stretching the line quite taught during the lashing - or using polyester
which doesn't stretch much. You can use clamps or hemostats to hold things
if you don't have enough hands. Though people who are good at lashing (not
me) make it look easy with ten fingers.
PC
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill [mailto:bill@billmercer.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 3:53 PM
To: baidarka@paddlewise.net
Subject: RE: [baidarka] Lashing material for keel scarfs?
I just found some waxed polyester cord on leevalley.com. So how do you
secure the ends when you lash the scarf joints--do you tie them, or just
hide the ends like you would when lashing? Does the slight 'working' of
the joint make it impossible/unadvisable to pull the ends under as in
conventional lashing/whipping? And if one doesn't just pull the ends
under the lashing, how does one keep the lashing tight enough? I had
quite a bit of trial and error in my deckframe lashing, with parts needing
to be done more than once because the waxed nylon lashing material went
slack after a couple days.
Bill
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