This rope was found in an old chest and the local museum could not identify its use so they naturally asked me. The length is 2,5 meters and one end is pointed, the other end has canvas covered strands tied to a Rose Knot (Double Wall + single crown. Chafe guard in leather with pinked washer.
My guess would be a yoke rope but they haven´t been very common over here.
Anyone with more educated guess?
Mikko
Could it be a simple whip?
If i am not mistaken it is a Man-rope at least it resemble the one Gabriel Richir made for a exhibition link to the post of Gabriel : Ropeworks Group | Manrope made for an exhibition | Facebook
Charles.
i saw it this week in the Ashley book, about page 20 of the photographs.
what’s a man rope knot, how is it used? thanks
thanks again Charles for the info,
i realise i could’ve done a simple search, but i prefer chatting / asking people when i can …
this is great, i had no idea,
way handy rope/ tool.
i had thought it was for holding on to the end of a rope with your foot (but - whyy?)! but i am a land lubber and it shows
Please do not use AI as reference when it comes to traditional crafts. As you see the answers are poor and misleading. Mikko
A yoke rope makes sense, easy to thread thru a hole and away you go. I use that quit often moving pallets around deck, of course it is whatever rope or sling that is nearest.
Or as suggested in the linked FB post a manrope, attached to the a ships side then embarking or disembarking a ship with little freeboard no ladder need just a couple of ropes to hold on to.
My quick on-line check --with ME doing the looking–
is finding a small consensus (in dictionaries, e.g.) for
“a side rope (as to a ship’s gangway or ladder) used as a handrail”
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As you see the answers are poor and misleading.
“misleading” is too kind for many of them --egadz,
that footrope acting as a safety line to catch someone ??? !
A LOT of nonsense gotten quickly!
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Do you have the slightest idea of where this “info” originates
(or echoes from) ?! You have no idea …, and neither do I, who
has done searching through many known sources (ABoK,
Hensel & Gretel’s EKFRW, CLDay’s AKS & Sailors’ Knots,
Svensson’s Handbook of Seaman’s Knots, George Biddlecomb’s
The Art of Rigging, and --now viewable HERE, in Books (pdf)–
Admiralty Manual of Seamanship & Aldridge’s echo of that
(seemingly). All point to gangway assists.
Some curiosities arise :: two sources say that the man-rope
knot should NOT be used qua stopper (but then what’s it do?),
and your image suggests --as does an Ashley note-- that the
manrope-knot’d end will see wear/loading!?
A man‑rope (sometimes just called a “man rope”)
Ah, so sometimes one calls it without the hyphen! Good one.
The knot can be tied and untied rapidly
?! The man-rope knot is a multi-strand end knot;
it is not tied & untied all so quickly.
Tighten the knot by pulling both ends; the result is a compact, secure hitch that can be released with a quick pull on the working end
Utter rubbish!
they can wrap the man‑rope around a belaying pin and tie a simple knot (often a man‑rope hitch ).
- Tie a man‑rope hitch around the belaying pin, then loop the sheet through the same hitch.
Good luck learning what that “man-rope hitch” is :: Google
finds it in one place only --this thread! Really, nearly all of
what’s seen here has spit out by AI is rubbish.
it became a staple of everyday seamanship,
Yep, sure did --one can read about it alllll over.
Just go down to a sea port pub and ask any ol’ sailor
"Old salt, how to you knot your man rope?! "
You might get better responses than from AI!
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Since my two reply have cause so much polemic i have taken them down have a good day.
Charles.
