Purchase guide 3/4 Docking: the right knots The most important mooring knots are the famous two half-hitch knot and the simple but often badly made cleat hitch knot. You can also use the bowline knot but smartly! The bowline knot The bowline knot is the most common loop knot: is used to fasten a sheet…
Purchase guide 2/4 Dock lines: how many and how long? Regarding dock lines, there are definitely two schools! The first is where the smallest locker on board is overflowing with mooring lines of all kinds, from an old piece of Ø 32 dock line as rigid as a justice to the messy rope spool that…
Purchase guide 4/4 Docking: good practice guide Even if there are no good or bad situations, there are obviously some good and bad ways to moor your boat. Without meaning to be indignant with a stern finger and an accusing eye, a quick overview of the pontoons gives an idea of what not to do,…
Spliced ropes: change and set up your running rigging easily! During the refit of his sailboat carried out this winter, Yann replaced his running rigging and ordered some of our ready-to-use items from our Ino-Rope store. Halyards, sheets, roller furler line: he purchased ready-to-use ropes and rigged them in five minutes. He also bought a…
ROUTE DU RHUM RACE Flax for the road! Interview with Roland Jourdain Bilou’s Chinese portrait! The Route du Rhum had not even started when the excitement was already palpable on the pontoons of Concarneau, home port of We Explore, Roland Jourdain’s catamaran. It is the only Outremer 5X to contain 50% flax fibre and the first boat…
How to winterise your ropes properly Along with chafing, salt and UVs are ropes’ worst enemies. So, if you wish to extend the lifespan of your sailboat’s running rigging significantly, we strongly advise you take time to winterise it. It will also avoid the need to remove the mould that will have taken up residence…
The messenger line termination | Roperwork tutorial Mastering ropework enables you to make full use of the rope during navigation, but also ashore during wintering operations. The messenger line termination was specifically conceived for this purpose or to simplify the installation of a new rope on board. It consists in making a loop at the…
The stitched whipping | Ropework tutorial Sewed by inserting the needle several times through the rope with whipping twine,the stitched whipping is a very reliable method to fasten the cover and the core of a rope. For example, it is essential to sew the sheath to the base of a spliced eye on the core,…
The ultra-easy textile shackle without splice – the Ino-Rope style shackle It is commonly called “textile shackle”. The latter is now an essential component of modern splicing. Because they are light and robust, textile shackles have consequently surpassed their stainless steel cousin for the connection of blocks, sheets and other halyards. Therefore, numerous versions are…
Rope purchase guide : Choose your rope Buying guide: choose your rope by the cut As a creator of products and solutions from high-tech textile fibres, Ino-Rope is not a BBB (“beast of a shop”). Ourteam has drawn on its expertise in seamanship to select the best products from the plethora of ropes available on…
It may be of interest: the tensile test bench is installed at Ino-Rope! All the Ino-Rope team is proud to inform you that the tensile test bench has been delivered! From the beginning of spring, the important newcomer found its place in our workshop: with its 27 m length, its 3.5 tons of steel, and…
Make a double-braid splice (Dyneema® core) Here is a tutorial about the basics of modern splicing. The double-braid splice Dyneema (core + cover): this splice in made on a rope made of a Dyneema® core and a Polyester cover. The double-braid splice is called that way because it concern ropes with covers, composed of a…
Textile connectors: A guide to help you select it ! Purchase guide for textile connectors Souvent appelées ‘manilles’ ou ‘erses à bouton’, la présentation des accroches textiles n’est plus à faire. Gain de place et de poids pour une résistance égale ou accrue, polyvalentes de par leurs multiples usages (accroches de poulie, d’écoute, de drisse…
Ready to Use Spliced Ropes : Ino-Rope launches its product range! Select, rig…sail! More than 1500 references, designed to suit your type of navigation: > Coastal cruising : are you sailing with the coast in sight or from island to island? Find affordable and easy to use spliced ropes in our selection. > Offshore cruising: : are you sailing…
Buyer’s guide: Ready-to-use spliced ropes Replacing a rope means choosing the right materials, the right finishes and the right length (etc. ) and finding your way through the wide range of products available. Ino-Rope makes online shopping simple and secure by providing a catalogue of ready-to-use spliced ropes. 1. Find the rope to suit your…
[BOOK] A comprehensive guidebook on modern ropework ! Many of you follow our ropework tutorials on our blog. Many of you also ask us technical questions about materials, rope structures, textile connectors, etc. Good news! All the answers to your questions can be found in the “Modern Ropework & Sailing Knots” guide, published in partnership…
GUIDE D’ACHAT 3/3 Which fibres should be used in textile standing rigging? More and more people, competitive sailors and leisure boaters alike, ask us questions about textile standing rigging. What are the different technologies to make a textile cable? Which fibres should be used for textile shrouds? To avoid any misunderstanding, first let’s specify that…
GUIDE D’ACHAT 2/3 Textile standing rigging according to your type of boat For which boats and what programmes is it interesting to have textile standing rigging? What does textile standing rigging impose in terms of installation, tuning, maintenance, lifespan, insurance? Our step-by-step answers. Textile shrouds, the privilege of regatta racers? Filament winding and pultruded UD…
GUIDE D’ACHAT 1/3 Cable standing rigging | The different technologies of textile cable standing rigging Textile cable is the association of a material (aramids, PBO, carbon, Dyneema) with a construction technique (filament winding, pultruded UD, braiding). Each solution is relevant to a type of sailboat and its programme (offshore racing, coastal regatta, open sea cruising,…
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