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 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 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 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…
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