Deck Skills.

hello i thought, i would write ab it about the totally useful skills, that we learn in our time in the deck department. well besides doing security or learning how to steer the old lady, we also learn how to do rope work and how to throw a "heaving line". a Heaving line is a special rope, that has a monkey fist at the end. a monkey fist is a special knot, with a heavy object in it. you use a heaving line, to throw it down onto the quayside as the first connection from the ship to the port worker. on the heaving line we connect the mooring line, which is the line, that secures the ship to the berth.

well last week, we had a "contest" in the department, this time we tried it the opposite way, so we ended up trowing the heaving lines from the quayside onto the ship. we became so "good" in it, that in the end we tried to throw them trough a very narrow opening, just twice as big as the monkey fist itself. well and here you can see the end result ;)




ha, i love Deck
have a blessed day
sebi