Schooner Vocabulary
Dictionary of Boating Terms

Dictionary of Boating Sailing, Schooners, Naval, Ships, Boat and Seafaring Terms

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Baggywrinkle: - chafing gear made from old ropes

Baggywrinkle  is the "scruffy-looking padding used on shrouds to prevent chafing. chafe against the spreaders or shrouds, wearing away the sail to the point where it could rip in a big blow.

All you need is a ball of marline and some old rope. Middle a twelve foot piece of marline , hook it over a nail in your work area and secure the bitter ends about a foot apart. Now chop up any rope you have into piece of about 6".  Careful separate the pieces into strands.  Now placesa strand crosswise underneath the marlin bring each end up and over though the center as shown. Now grasp both end of the rope strand and pull them towards the nail. Each strand is jammed close to the proceeding one. When you have made enough trim the strands to an equal length. It is applied to rigging by seizing the end in position and winding it spiraling the desired distance

Bob from Schooner Madeline making baggywrinkle Aug 2001

Baggywrinkles on the schooner Madeline       In the Days of Sail Buy this Art Print  at AllPosters.com Shamrock 3 Buy this Art Print  at AllPosters.com

Illustration and copy modified from The Marlinspike Sailor copyright 1956. for information on Dover latest copy click below;

Hervey Garrett Smith was the foremost marine illustrator of the 1950s and 1960s, and his wonderful drawings of traditional ropework quickly propelled The Marlinspike Sailor to cult classic status when it was published in 1956. With the addition of a section on modern, synthetic rope in the 1970s, its popularity has continued undiminished to this day. It teaches a few basic knots--the bowline, sheet bend, and rolling hitch, among others--and splices in three-strand and braided rope. But its real business is decorative rope and canvaswork--the traditional arts of the sailor--and here it has no equal. For a rope mat, a rope ladder, a sea chest, a ditty bag, a canvas bucket, a mast boot, and the best-looking rope fenders or heaving line in the marina, this is the book of choice.

02/10/2008