Hey Seef...
Glad your aboard!

Okay, for a moment I thought our forum got hacked... then I did a little research and here is what I found.

Cockscombing:
Cockscombing is a decorative form of hitching that is often used for rings rails and handles.  :educated:

Nice job on that Edson wheel.

I figured the subject would get at least a little attention.

The "humpers" was a very cool read.  I would have loved to have seen it! ;D

Coxswain's are pros at cockscombing!    I sealed it with a water based polyurethane.

Yep, that's the wheel on above waterman.  A friend of mine talked me through learning how to do the cockscombing, I taught myself, from a book, the turk's heads that "terminate" each end.  So, I had to practice quite a bit before I started on the wheel.  It took me ten hours.  I worked on it for a couple hours a day for 5 days.  The hardest part is tightening down the turk's heads.  You have to cinch each strand individually around and around until the whole knot comes tight.  Do you have an edson, or edson type wheel on your whipray?  Hell's Bay now offers an edson wheel with the knot work for $450.00 or so extra as an option.  The guy that does most of the work for them taught me.

GI-fisher wrote:

I also found an interesting Navy-type word:  Cumshaw
It has nothing to do with line, rope, or tying knots (nor orgasm for that matter ); it actually means some type of gratuity or gratitude...

It was probably British Navy personnel who first picked up "cumshaw" in Chinese ports, during the First Opium War of 1839–42. "Cumshaw" is from a word that means "grateful thanks" in the dialect of Xiamen, a port in southeast China.

My education in now complete... LOL  :educated: