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    #11
    Originally posted by realityhack View Post
    A Hangman's Noose - here, try it out for size...
    ooh its a bit tight isn't it.....

    **choking.

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      #12
      Originally posted by Diver View Post
      About 18 up the Bristol channel
      You need more horsepower my friend.

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        #13
        Bowline on a bight

        Or a bowline tied one handed, now there's a lovely knot.
        ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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          #14
          Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
          Bowline on a bight

          Or a bowline tied one handed, now there's a lovely knot.
          Which is easy to do one handed.
          Confusion is a natural state of being

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            #15
            Originally posted by Churchill View Post
            You need more horsepower my friend.
            That would increase fuel consumption. It's a fishing boat.
            Confusion is a natural state of being

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              #16
              Originally posted by Diver View Post
              Which is easy to do one handed.
              Indeed, I never understood all of that "rabbit running round the tree and back down the hole" nonsense.

              Lay the running part over, twist wrist, jobs a good-un.
              ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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                #17
                Originally posted by Diver View Post
                That would increase fuel consumption. It's a fishing boat.
                There is a reason why God invented 10cylinder marine diesel engines...

                They're fun, especially in pairs.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by Diver View Post
                  That would increase fuel consumption. It's a fishing boat.
                  You're not going to catch many fish going at 18 knots - unless it's a trawler...
                  ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
                    Indeed, I never understood all of that "rabbit running round the tree and back down the hole" nonsense.

                    Lay the running part over, twist wrist, jobs a good-un.
                    and the most commonly used knot by seamen and divers too. coz it's easy to undo.
                    Confusion is a natural state of being

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                      #20
                      A Gordian knot - What the PM has himself well and truly trussed up in!

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