NETTLETAPTHE DAY NET
38 mm mesh · 1.6 mm twine
NEEDLE AT 1·1 — DEE SIDE — SOUND
DAYLIGHT 1:45
MARKS OUT 8
HAUL 0%
A NET IS MESHED, NOT KNOTTED
NETTLETAP
Read a net that has come in holed, mend it one knot at a time with a netting needle, then send it into the water and watch the haul decide whether you were right.
WASD move the needle
SPACE tie
123 knot
456 spool
R cut it out
ENTER send it in
No nets mended yet.
NEEDLE DOWN
The net waits.
The needle, the twine and the daylight are where you left them.
MENDING NOTES
What a knot has to be.
- WASD / ARROWS
- Walk the netting needle over the mesh. Whatever it is sitting on, the line under the rack tells you.
- SPACE or E
- Tie the knot in the needle at that mesh. A reef knot on a dee side, a half hitch on a sley side.
- 1 2 3
- Which knot is in the needle. An overhand is never right on a dee side — it caps over the moment the strain comes on.
- 4 5 6
- Which spool is in the needle. Match the twine to the net or the knot will not seat in the mesh.
- R
- Cut the last knot out and get the twine back. Nothing is lost but the seconds.
- ENTER
- Stop mending and send the net into the water. A net with a hole in it is not a net.
- M / ESC / H
- Mute / pause / these notes.
Every sound knot carries strain in two directions and stops a tear dead. A tired knot is thin and pale and will not. A knot in the wrong twine holds on to nothing at all.
JOB 1 OF 3
THE DAY NET
Harbour steps, one gaff
OUT OF THE WATER