{"id":435,"date":"2020-12-14T09:45:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T09:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/?p=435"},"modified":"2020-12-14T09:45:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T09:45:42","slug":"making-a-line-fast-to-a-set-of-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/2020\/12\/14\/making-a-line-fast-to-a-set-of-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a line fast to a set of bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The line is brought in around the after of the bitts and then figure of eight turns are taken between the two bitts.  The last turn should be a locking turn.  If the vessel is being tied up for a length of time, then the lines should be lashed down to prevent them coming  adrift.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_242\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.5.3_fig_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"320\" class=\"size-full wp-image-242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.5.3_fig_1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.5.3_fig_1-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.5.3_fig_1-768x273.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.5.3_fig_1-260x92.jpg 260w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.5.3_fig_1-50x18.jpg 50w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.5.3_fig_1-150x53.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belaying a line to a set of bits\/bollards.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The line is brought in around the after of the bitts and then figure of eight turns are taken between the two bitts. The last turn should be a locking turn. If the vessel is being tied up for a length of time, then the lines should be lashed down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,73,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-2-seamanship","category-10-2-5-basic-knots-bends-hitches-and-splices","category-10-2-5-3-making-a-line-fast-to-a-set-of-bitts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}