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Re: Knot strength
From: Beleg
Date: 1999 Apr 06, 8:01 PM
From: Beleg
Date: 1999 Apr 06, 8:01 PM
Hello Lu,
�����, 7 ������ 99, you wrote to world:
LA> I'm looking for some definitive, original-source data on the strength of
LA> various common knots (bowline, sheet bend, etc) vs the strength of the
LA> original rope itself.
It's a part of table, printed in book "Modern rope seamanship" by
Colin Jarman & Bill Beavis (Adlar Coles Ltd. London).
But i have translated (russian) version, and have no needed dictionary to translate all the table, so i'm
sending a part of it. Strenght of knots in % from strange of original
rope. First figure - standard %, second one - practice %.
Nylon hawser | Sizal (Natural libres) hawser
reef knot 50-37 | 76-53
simple knot 54-40 | 71-50
sheet bend 71-53 | 72-50
topsail bend (�double sheet bend�)77-57 | 71-50
�ogon� 100-81 | 100-100
running knot(or maybe half hitch) 75-55 | 99-94
bowline 78-58 | 90-63
Best regards,
Beleg (aka Konstantin Doudka)
Vladivostok,Russia mailto:beleg@mail.primorye.ru
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