Jamie Goddard, owner of the Rope Guru in South Portland, counts among his customers utilities, ship builders and arborists. PHOTO / TIM GREENWAY Sales have more than doubled every year since Jamie ...

Monarch Mountain, located near Salida, Colorado, is in the process of replacing the haul rope for their Garfield chairlift. Garfield has ferried skiers up Monarch since 1969. The resort shared a ...

The mooring and towing of oil rigs and huge ships rely on the strength and durability of thick ropes and the splices that join those ropes. Yet the mathematical models used to evaluate ropes have long ...

Lankhorst Ropes Offshore Division has introduced the LankoFirst range of fiber rope connectors for deepwater mooring systems. Lankhorst Ropes Offshore Division (LROD), part of the Royal Lankhorst ...

Crews from Aspen Skiing Co. and its contractors are on the homestretch this week of the massive undertaking of replacing the thick wire cable of the Silver Queen Gondola at Aspen Mountain. The cable, ...

Mathematics is unpicking the secrets of a centuries-old nautical skill called splicing - joining two ropes together end to end by interweaving their strands 1. Chris Leech of rope and fibre ...

Lankofirst fiber rope connector offshore trial Lankofirst fiber rope connector on mooring line winch Lankofirst said offshore trials of its synthetic fiber rope mooring connector have shown a ...