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• running rigging question: blood knot?
  • Buntline hitch, small, won't loosen
    • second that. Use it all the time on halyards
  • It is the Jeanneau Halyard Knot
    • yep, it's just a buntline hitch with an extra wrap AKA another type of axe knot...
  • Love this kind of thread..
    • Bowline would get pretty tight. Especially over time.
    • Jib sheets
      • Love knots
        • Bowline on head sail
          • excellant point, Ron
      • Me too. Doesn't hang up and easy enough to remove.
    • Tape
      • Snow sleds too
  • What's wrong with using a ball stop?
  • a properly done core to core eye splice is my choice...