dsmithy

It’s surprising, even if you’re retired, how many times you are asked to lift heavy things, tie stuff down, control the beast, whatever. I am a theater guy who has done some sailing and I thought I knew a lot about rope. What a fool I was. I’ve used this app for a couple of years now and it never fails to amaze me how someone in the dim and foggy past had a rope and a problem and solved it simply and elegantly. Some of the knots are so elegant that it’s apparent that many people contributed. Crowd sourcing from the age of sail! Who knew? Apparently these guys knew, gathered a splendid collecti