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• Apr. 3, 2007 - Makin' Baggywrinkles

 

“I think I’m gonna give some baggywrinkles to Olivia" I told the Commander.

 

“Yea” he agreed “They’d look good on her”…..

 

Wow. Ain’t nautical terminology funny? I mean, in the next several weeks we’re gonna haul her out, put her on the hard ‘cause her bottoms dirty……

 

Nah, I’m not joking.

 

Yesterday I stopped over at the Home Despot for the required small stuff. Cost me around twenty bucks to get enough polypropylene to do all of our required shrouds. Sat in front of the idiot TV last night making up 6 foot sections of baggywrinkles. Got a couple more to make tonight for the mizzen.

 

Baggywrinkles are real easy to make……I used a 12 foot piece of parachute line nylon doubled over (for 6’ baggywrinkles). Between this I hung individual strands of three-strand (½ inch diameter) chunks of white poly line, cut into 6” strips, then  I whipped off the baggywrinkle ends, frayed the individual tag ends and behold…..baggywrinkles!

 

 

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