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Belaying Pin Deck Quoits
£34.95
6574 Belaying Pin Deck Quoits, £34.95
To Defeat the Doldrums!
When wind was the only power available, sailors had no choice but to sit out the calm equatorial zone known as the "doldrums". The crew naturally turned their minds to the invention of games to while away this enforced leisure and one of the more obvious options was to use belaying pins, normally used to fix and tidy rope to the fife rail, as a target at which to throw rope loops. Sailors often competed at this, the original "quoits", for money, tobacco and ale.
Our version is made with a solid hardwood base and belaying pin. The 6 quoits have a thin metal hoop which is hand-bound with natural rope and finished with different identifying coloured twine.
Base measures 9.5" square. Height 13".
When wind was the only power available, sailors had no choice but to sit out the calm equatorial zone known as the "doldrums". The crew naturally turned their minds to the invention of games to while away this enforced leisure and one of the more obvious options was to use belaying pins, normally used to fix and tidy rope to the fife rail, as a target at which to throw rope loops. Sailors often competed at this, the original "quoits", for money, tobacco and ale.
Our version is made with a solid hardwood base and belaying pin. The 6 quoits have a thin metal hoop which is hand-bound with natural rope and finished with different identifying coloured twine.
Base measures 9.5" square. Height 13".
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