How to make a Halyard fast to a Pin Rail

[@pj0eb]

Hi Gary, thanks! It's so nice to learn the "real" ways to rig these models. To everyone else, Gary's schooner takes some work but the materials aren't expensive and you can build this boat! Mine turned out so nicely, my first model boat project.

[@TheMendipman]

Very neat Gary - thanks for that. Noel

[@mr.morgan5643]

Gary thank you for the tip!!

[@rv4tyler]

Thank you, exactly the knowledge I was looking for.

[@RichardMoynahan]

I've enjoyed your youtube videos and the look of your RC model. Thank you for sharing your hobby.

[@glennroberts461]

Cool. Never saw that before.

[@nevillecottee7629]

Hi Gary. This KZbin video will definitely interest you. “Fastening a line to a belaying pin on a real ship and model”. Cheers

[@nevillecottee7629]

Hi Gary. I’ve always been interested in gaff rigged boats. I’ve owned one and sailed on a few, including a 90ft Thames barge, which is actually a sprit rigged yawl with a topsail. How many voyages have you completed in yours?

[@sailtails2775]

Hi Neville, to answer your question, I have not yet completed this voyage which began about 35 years ago.

[@raftsail]

Thank you!

[@nevillecottee7629]

Wrong. See: How To Belay And Coil A Ship’s Rigging Line.

[@sailtails2775]

Of course, there is more than one way to do this. The way I show in this video is well suited for use on small to medium sized boats. It has served me well on my 35 foot cutter for more than 30 years, and works with small twine on a my RC models. A big sailing ship is a different animal.

[@nevillecottee7629]

@@sailtails2775 yes, there are two schools of thought about that. 1 .. The big boat operators who make fast with figure eights and 2 .. the small boat operators who make fast with knots. When someone from group 2 experiences a jam up, he will join group 1. I used to do it your way on my 30ft gaff cutter. Then one day, during a squall, the throat halyard jammed. Incidentally, belaying pins should be removable and tapered. In case a fine weather sailor finishes with a knot. If load comes onto the knot in heavy weather, the pin can be knocked up to release it.

[@nevillecottee7629]

@@sailtails2775 Hi Gary. This KZbin video will certainly interest you. Most of it is about gaff rigged models. It’s called ... “Fastening a line to a belaying pin on a real ship and model” .. Cheers.

[@jonathansimmonds5784]

WRONG! That is NOT the correct way to make a rope fast on ANY boat. I could see that at 40 seconds in. Right from the very first turn you got it wrong, the rope goes clockwise around the top of the pin, you took it anti clock plus you only coil a right hand laid rope clockwise, left hand laid rope is coiled anti clock. Then you didn't do the obligatory minimum 3 turns before doing a locking hitch, why 3? Because it lessens the chance of a loaded rope jamming the lock requiring the rope to be cut to get it off the pin, some skippers ban locking hitches on their vessels for that reason. There is only one way, the correct way, on ALL vessels of any size. I've been sailing and rigging and building gaff rigged boats plus crewed many of the worlds biggest square riggers for over 45 years, from my 19ft gaff cutter to Falmouth oyster boats, Brixham Trawlers, Baltic ketches and three mast skonnerts to the 4 mast barque Sea Cloud under one of the USGC Eagle's captains, 5 Atlantic crossings, twice round the Med, the Baltic, English Channel, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, I've sailed under proper captains of several nationalities, Master Mariners, those with papers to prove it not like you Yanks who call any idiot with a boat 'captain', men who know how to tack a full rigged ship out of New York, I learned from mates and bosuns and fishermen who have forgotten more than you will ever know so please don't reply to this, just accept you are wrong and what you are teaching people on here is dangerous. Thank you, admonishment over.