Hey Dan, You can whip anything, although with synthetic finely braded lines you gotta have a very tight whip to get it to stay put. You can stitch through the rope at the beginning and end of the whip wrapp to help this and to keep the core from sliding up inside the brade.
Only thing is, you can't whip rite up to the very end, and synthetic rope will look frayed there no matter how tight the whip. If you see a boat with lines that are neatly whipped, you can bet you got a "real" sailor aboard. Most people these days burn the ends and tie a "stopper knot" where appropriate and let it go at that. I've tried whipping a few times and havn't developed the trick for getting them as tight as they need to be, it takes a lot of practice. BTW, whipping for those who aren't old enough so they learned it in boy scouts, is that technique where a small waxed line is very tightly wrapped round the end of a larger line to keep it from comming unwrapped. A correct whipp actually squishes the line down so it's easier to put through holes. Three strand line, as now-a-days used mostly for docking lines, requires a fancier system so the whipping follows the spiraling three strand, and that looks really cool when done well. Once a year or so my sailing club, BAADS, the Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors, goes out for a day sail on the Alma, the S.F. maratime museum's restored scow scooner. Everything there is done the old fashioned way as much as possible so lines are whipped and tied the way it aughta be done, all are on belaying pins and all the blocks are oak. Really neat to see. Had a sailor friend who was kind of teaching me to whipp, but sadly she dissappeared with husband and boat under suspicious circumstances, so that's done for. I wouldn't try to teach whipping as I'm not competant at it. Ah well maybe when i retire and live on a boat? <GRIN> tom Net-Tamer V 1.13 Beta - Registered To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
