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 ...

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 ...

View post: How Old Were You When You First Tried Skiing? Our Readers Weigh In Monarch Mountain, located near Salida, Colorado, is in the process of replacing the haul rope for their Garfield chairlift ...