Hammocks

[depinux]

Ahoy,

Has anyone here build a sailor's hammock, or have any sources as to how to go about doing so? Or even a place that builds period hammocks? I'd very much like to have one for me dorm room next semester.

[Gutterpunk13]

I Made and are sleeping in My own Hammock. Very comfortable.

You can Make your own if you like. The Ashley Book of Knots Tells you How.

But if you like We can hold some sort of transaction. trade.

Bargain Perhaps.

and ill make you A Sailors hammock Worth the name.

Now what skills do you offer in trade?

I dont take money Nor Favors so get that outta yer head

I am an apprentice sail maker, Canvasman, Rigger, and Marlinespike sailor.

Some Skilled more than others But I get the Job done.

John

[carolinapyrate]

I have made one its fairly easy I will post a photo of mine later on today

[Captain Jim]

There are three other hammock threads that you might find useful.

https://pyracy.com/forums/index.php?showtop...0399&hl=hammock

https://pyracy.com/forums/index.php?showtop...4802&hl=hammock

https://pyracy.com/forums/index.php?showtop...3501&hl=hammock

One has a history (unatributed) of the hammock dating the use to GAoP naval forces.

[Capn_Enigma]

I have made my hammock on my second sea voyage in the late 1980s. It is a replica of the hammocks used by the Royal Navy.

I was lucky to find a generous length of sailcloth in my first ship's store and diverted some of it for my purposes.

On my second ship, I welded 24 steel rings out of long nails for the grommets, took a sail maker's needle and glove and sewed the whole thing together.

For starters, you should have a look at the Ashley Book Of Knots. There you'll find a very good description of how to do it.

Although my hammock is 20+ years old and very often used, it is still as good as new.

[Patrick Hand]

DRAT.... I didn't know there were instructions in Ashley Book Of Knots... I'm going to have to check out a copy through inter Library loan.........

I'm about half way done making one based off info from this page...

http://www.hmsrichmond.org/hamock.htm

I'm making some minor modifications to it tho.....

I'm 6' 3" so I made it longer.....

And the rings I bought at the hardware store wern't large enough for 6 halfhitched lines... so I only used 5, and siezed them over the ring so they didn't take up as much space.....

I still have to make and sew all the grommets now.....

I figure that I'm not reenacting the Royal Navy.... so mine will be "close enough"

[Capn_Enigma]

LOL!

FYI: You find the hammocks in the ABOK from # 3813 onwards. The stitches to sew the grommets are # 3523 and the canvas stitches are # 3536 ff.

[Patrick Hand]

With out having a copy of Ashleys book of knots... I guessed at it....

I havent trimmed the eye splices yet.... I've strung it up to test it, but I want to leave the excess until I'm sure they are the right length......

[Rumba Rue]

Course the real trick where to put it to use it.... as Boats has found out after making his years ago and no where to use it....no trees in the right places, nothing strong enough to hold it up with a person in it...all in all I think he realized he made it for nothing.....

[MorganTyre]

Speaking of places to put it, I always liked the sketch #3825 in Ashley's.

[Capt. Sterling]

Course the real trick where to put it to use it.... as Boats has found out after making his years ago and no where to use it....no trees in the right places, nothing strong enough to hold it up with a person in it...all in all I think he realized he made it for nothing.....

Maddogge hangs his at every event and uses it... via his tent poles in his lean to...

[Calico Jack]

Maddogge hangs his at every event and uses it...   via his tent poles in his lean to...

Have done similar, and can vouch that if your lean-to is long enough [ours was a spar across - about three-and-a-bit-fathoms total], and sturdy enough, it can hang a hammock nicely.

This held a hammock, and quite solidly, once she was raised [she's in a bit of disrepair in the photo, being half way to "reef sheets" thanks to a storm].

[Rumba Rue]

I'm afraid poor Boats is too heavy to be laying in one attached to such lightweight (they may not be, but you haven't seen my other half ) poles and would certainly break them.

[Patrick Hand]

Right now, the ridge pole and shier poles for my lean-to/sail arn't strong enough... but I was thinking of fixing them so I could string the hammoc at events.....

hummmm... maybe if I string the sail/tarp sideways, and make some longer poles.....

I won't have the space at Ojai.... and for PiP, I'll just string it between two trees.... but it should work at some of the other events.....

[Capt. Bo of the WTF co.]

Question on grommets; I am making a combo square-sail/ lean-to tarp/bedroll that will serve as sail for a small boat or canoe. The book I have says to tar the grommets. I am using oilcloth for this project. How necessary is the tar using hemp for the grommets? I thought about just using brass rings, but I'm having fun making grommets. Thoughts/suggestions?

Bo

[Patrick Hand]

I'd guess that the tar would keep the grommets from fraying/unraveling.... but they are sewn in place, so I can't figure how they would ever come apart.....

Maybe it's just to keep them from rotting ?

[Capt. Bo of the WTF co.]

Thanx Pat. Kinda what I thought too. Plus that's alot of mess to go through for a freshwater river scum like me.

Bo

[theM.A.dDogge]

so ok...heres' the trick...don't lie in the hammock length ways...end to end...but more diagonal like...damn near sideways....that way ya don't need the "perfect distance " tween to uprights...and you actually lay flatter for a better nights sleep thats more comfortable....mine is actually an ecuadorian made hammock...made the same way for damn near a thousand years...or so "they" said...whoever "they" are....and i can sleep in mine with the ends damn near touchin.....so distance really never comes much of an issue.....