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June 11, 2010 1 Comment
My first time sailing, I was stumped by the foreign language spoken onboard; that everyone seemed to know except me. "No ropes?" I scoffed naively, "Well then, what are all those things tied to the sails and wrapped around the winches?" After much clucking and rolling of eyes among the rest of the crew, my language class began with a lesson on the difference between ropes and lines.
Boats, I learned, use lines, not rope. Rope, I was corrected, is relegated to land-based uses... like trimming some of our hottest new nautical pieces! So here's to lines and learning a new language, and to ropes, and the beautiful accents they create for our getaways by the sea!Comments will be approved before showing up.
David
January 06, 2017
Lines, ropes, whatever . . . the outcome remains the same. . .both can be used to secure one item to another, be a life line vs. life rope? Rope cattle or line cattle? Tie off a boat with a line or a rope . . . it is all in the vocabulary and how we use it in our daily language.
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