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I posed a question a few days ago about some peculiar lanyards on the reproduction of L'Hermione, since nobody seemed to know what the answer was, I knuckled down and figured it out and thought I'd share my findings, just in case anybody else ever needs this info.
it seems to effectively be two hitches and then as many turns around the deadeyes as one needs, depending on how much slack is leftover. the final loose end I've seen secured a number of ways, including a final, additional hitch on the bottom, but for simplicity's sake I chose the easiest solution.
descriptions for each step in the diagram:
1: (curiously I found many of the larger deadeye's started from the right, rather than the left) the lanyards are run through the deadeyes, the loose end is brought up towards the top deadeye and tied in a simple cow-hitch (a.k.a, very appropriately, a deadeye-hitch)
2: the cord is brought down midway, and tied in a second hitch before wrapping the slack around, effectively reversing the direction of the wrap
3: the lanyard is turned around itself as many times as one needs (I saw as many as 8 and as few as 1 turn across the various shrouds)
4: the line is run under the resulting coil and pulled up to begin wrapping vertically
5: remaining slack is wrapped vertically
6: this step just to show the arrangement thus far, at this point there are a number of ways i've seen this loose ends handled
7: simplest handling of the loose ends seems to be wrapping the end of the cord under the previous vertical turn (or turns) and pulling sharply upward, forming the twist visible in the diagram, which is held tight by friction but still easy to work free when one needs to adjust the deadeyes
(as a final note to the curious, I found this same method photographed on the Götheborg, I think I remember hearing that l'Hermione was rigged with help from an expert who had worked on that ship. I wonder if this isn't a common 18th century Swedish method for handling the lanyards.)
it seems to effectively be two hitches and then as many turns around the deadeyes as one needs, depending on how much slack is leftover. the final loose end I've seen secured a number of ways, including a final, additional hitch on the bottom, but for simplicity's sake I chose the easiest solution.
descriptions for each step in the diagram:
1: (curiously I found many of the larger deadeye's started from the right, rather than the left) the lanyards are run through the deadeyes, the loose end is brought up towards the top deadeye and tied in a simple cow-hitch (a.k.a, very appropriately, a deadeye-hitch)
2: the cord is brought down midway, and tied in a second hitch before wrapping the slack around, effectively reversing the direction of the wrap
3: the lanyard is turned around itself as many times as one needs (I saw as many as 8 and as few as 1 turn across the various shrouds)
4: the line is run under the resulting coil and pulled up to begin wrapping vertically
5: remaining slack is wrapped vertically
6: this step just to show the arrangement thus far, at this point there are a number of ways i've seen this loose ends handled
7: simplest handling of the loose ends seems to be wrapping the end of the cord under the previous vertical turn (or turns) and pulling sharply upward, forming the twist visible in the diagram, which is held tight by friction but still easy to work free when one needs to adjust the deadeyes
(as a final note to the curious, I found this same method photographed on the Götheborg, I think I remember hearing that l'Hermione was rigged with help from an expert who had worked on that ship. I wonder if this isn't a common 18th century Swedish method for handling the lanyards.)
