Creative Ropecraft Workshop: How to Tie the Ocean Plat
10/27/09 • Chandlery News
The Wooden Boat Chandlery presents
Creative Ropecraft Workshop: How to Tie the Ocean Plat
Saturday, November 21. 1:00-3:00pm, Instructor Brian Wentzel
Location: Classrooms upstairs in the Chandler Education Building, Northwest Maritime Center
Cost: $27 Members, $30 Non-members.
To register: call Victoria at 360-385-3628 ext. 101 or email victoria@nwmaritime.org, registration deadline is Nov. 18.
Age 12 and up. Please call to arrange childcare for younger ones.
Learn how to make a beautiful rope mat for a holiday gift or for your own home or boat. Instructor Bryan Wentzel, a Port Townsend shipwright, will teach the traditional marlinspike skill of tying rope into an Ocean Plat rope mat. Bryan will also expand on the basic Ocean Plat and demo other types of knots for mats and stair treads.
Here's an opportunity to recycle old, worn pieces of line that are no longer strong enough to be used in the rig and give them a new purpose. Rope mats prevent chafe in front of hatches where repeated footfalls wear the wooden deck.
Bring your own rope to recycle: at least 20' of up to 3/8" in diameter, or purchase traditional hemp rope available at the workshop. Course participants will receive a 15% off coupon for rope purchases in the Wooden Boat Chandlery.
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