Does water temperature affect leash knot performance

and teh knot geting teh joke award goes too......

 

so I know things turned into a joke but I thought the original post was legit...no?

 

I should have known there is no seriousness here.

 

OK. I'll ask a serious question. Where did you get that 40% weaker stat from?

 

Good post. Good post.

Thanks for being serious - seriously

 

Nope, no seriousness here other than your excellent dissertation on leg rope string.

 

So obviously 40% or more doesn't encompass all knots but it does for a lot of common knots used on surf leash line.

http://www.neropes.com/Resources/sail_reprint.pdf

You'll find some testing info here. There is an ton of places that publish knot info but a lot of surfers use an overhand knot which has a reduction level of around 45-50% depending on line.

http://swvamrg.blacksburgrescue.org/knots

There are a lot of variables in knot testing and 40% is a good average for knots used in our application.

Dynamic and static strength testing is far more important for line that is used on boats/ships, rescue crews and climbing but I thought it was interesting for this post, which I now realize was originally a total joke.

 

i tie my to my truck hitch i put on the tail its never coming off.

 

When cold, it will effect balloonknot performance.

 

There ya go...see,we know what we're doin!
Great call Z

 

Brown Balloon Knot is a phrase used to describe the look of the anus. Next time you have hold of a blown up balloon, take a look at the ring above ...

-Urban Dictionary-

WTF Man?

 

Again, something else I have never heard of,

 

Whooooooooooooooosh

 

I've contemplated this for many years without coming to a conclusion. I've put this work aside though, to dedicate my time, energy, and brain capacity, to locating my bag of "give a fock".

Have you seen it?

 

Should both the leash and boarde both be sanded first, or just the boarde?