Today, I draw your attention to an activity display about sailing knots that I saw at the Canadian Children’s Museum in Gatineau, Quebec.
Why Sailing Knots Felt Like Crafts
See the title of this display: “Knot Now”? This has been my mantra for the past few weeks as my husband sailed from Barbados to Antigua, and I tended the sick at our house in Ottawa. Not a whole lot of course work was completed for my RYA online Day Skipper course.
But going back to the Knot Now sign for a moment — what kind of person stops, in the busy environs of the Children’s museum, to perform a series of sailing knots, especially, given the scant description on the display. It would take a very special person, I think. If I worked at the museum, I’d lobby to put a motion-detection camera on the display. It would be like spotting a unicorn.
Becoming a Knot-Tying Unicorn
I imagine that in a few weeks, I will be tying the Sheet Bend, the Carrick Bend and the Fisherman’s Knot with ease. And, it will be me at the display, completely absorbed in the happy task of tying sailing knots as my children run helter-skelter throughout the labyrinths of the Canadian Children’s Museum. I might even throw in a few more knots for good measure.
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