The final piece in our six part guide to splicing looks at a multiplait rope to chain splice. Three-strand synthetic rope is cheap to buy, durable, stretchy, and most importantly in this context, ...

EURONETE of Portugal is producing a growing amount of Dyneema products and has devoted a great deal of development effort into producing practical gear with high breaking strengths. "We have Dyneema ...

Frugality was a way of life on the farm in our grandparents’ day. Farmers did not have an unlimited source of income. They struggled to make ends meet. They lived by the old New England maxim: “Use it ...

The phrase 'Mine's bigger' was never truer. A US company has recently produced the world's largest rope, designed to make your heaviest mainsheet look like a piece of sewing cotton. The 12-strand rope ...