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Originally Posted by Greenhat
I learned to lash in the Scouts. Pioneering Merit Badge was well worth earning.
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I myself was an Eagle Scout, and above being trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, curtious, kind, obedient, cheerfull, thrifty, brave, clean and reverant, lashings and knots were one of the key lessons I took with me. When boarding my first fishing vessel the captain was impressed that a greenhorn could tie a sheepshank, clovehitch, and eyesplice a rope faster than the first mate. Little did I know when I went ice climbing for the first time that a figure eight knot was the one knot used to keep you in tact with your fate.