The Riddle of the Strands – The Liverpool Eye Splice Revealed
“Every finger a marlingspike, every hair a rope yarn and blood of Stockholm Tar!” is the traditional description of the ship’s bosun. In this eBook, master rigger Jamie White will lead you through the mysteries of the Liverpool Wire Splice. This is a handy skill for any sailor, and a must for any bosun, with more applications than you might think. Good for standing rigging, stropped blocks, and running rigging gear, to name a few. Seemingly mysterious and yet amazingly simple once you know the tricks, this eBook is your chance to wire splice with a master rigger who has taught wire splicing from California to Scotland to Australia.
Master rigger Jamie White has worked in the traditional rigging and square-rig sail training since the early 1980s. He has sailed over 30,000 miles as bosun, mate, or master on many square-rigged & traditional vessels including: New Zealand built HMAV Bounty, the three-masted barque Elissa, topsail schooner Californian, galleon Golden Hinde, 1863 barque Star of India, brig Pilgrim, schooner Adventuress, 3 masted schooner Jacqueline, , square-topsail ketch Hawaiian Chieftain, brig Lady Washington, schooner Atlantis, 1891 scow schooner Alma, and brigantine Soren Larsen. He served as Chief/Master Rigger on the 1896 barque Glenlee in Glasgow, Scotland, 1904 four-masted barque Moshulu in Philadelphia, PA, 1886 full-rigged ship Balclutha, and three-masted schooner C.A. Thayer in San Francisco, CA. Over the last twenty plus years, he served as a rigging consultant on the 1863 barque Star of India, 1878 four-masted ship Falls of Clyde, 1901 full rigged ship Discovery, and the 1885 barque Polly Woodside. Most recently he spent 2016 supervising and directing the multi-million dollar rigging restoration of the 1885 full-rigged ship Wavertree in New York City. Currently, Jamie is the master rigger on the rig restoration of the square-topsail schooner Swift of Ipswich for Los Angeles Maritime Institute.
Wire rope splicing is a maritime craft, rich in tradition and functional beauty, that can be intimidating and mysterious to the novice. Jamie will help to take the mystery out of the Liverpool splice with his clearly illustrated instructions.
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