There are many rituals boaters perform in the spring to get ready for the coming season. One of them for me is to prepare my mooring setup, using eye splices. A number of years ago I was taught to ...

Lankofirst fiber rope connector offshore trial Lankofirst fiber rope connector on mooring line winch Lankofirst said offshore trials of its synthetic fiber rope mooring connector have shown a ...

The mooring and towing of oil rigs and huge ships rely on the strength and durability of thick ropes and the splices that join those ropes. Yet the mathematical models used to evaluate ropes have long ...

Mathematics is unpicking the secrets of a centuries-old nautical skill called splicing - joining two ropes together end to end by interweaving their strands 1. Chris Leech of rope and fibre ...