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Ian H. Ian H. is offline
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Re: Thin rope!

I was under the assumption that the retaining feature could be a loop and/or knot. Because the davit has 2 steel fingers, with the manual saying:

These fingers are 1¼ in. (~3 cm) apart and
have a hole for a locking pin. The ROPE passes through the fingers with the top knot on the AIRSHIP
side of the fingers.

This phrasing implies that there has to be a knot, because the top knot is on the AIRSHIP side of the fingers, but part of me thinks this only is referring to the rope installed on the field. But the definition of ROPE, seems to imply otherwise.

However, the black rope in the picture in IO4 has 2 loops:



and IO4 E says:

E. be configured such that it engages securely with the FIELD.
To interface with the field a ROPE must have a retaining feature (e.g. a
knot) greater than 1 in. (~25.4 mm) in diameter to interface with the
DAVITS (RF).


This seems to say something other than a knot is allowed.

There seems to be contradicting info, but if a loop is allowed it seems like you could just put a loop around one of the steel fingers on the davit and it would still pass through the fingers
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