Acknowledgments and Thanks

Support and Interest Appreciated

This website depends on the enthusiastic help and advice provided by friends and family and businesses - most of them a long way from South Carolina, USA.

Editing:

It is a pleasure to acknowledge the persistent and thorough editing provided by Frank House in Scotland. His kind efforts are responsible for the correction of many errors.

Image Compression:

We thank Ian Fieggen of Melbourne, Australia who originally helped us with file compression.

Photographs:

We express our thanks to: Maritime Power for permission to use their photograph of the Bitts; and US SAILING for permission to use their photograph of the Taut Line Hitch.

Rope:

We thank Matt Allingham of New England Ropes and Mike Burrell of Rope Inc. for providing much of the material used in these animated photograph sequences.

Web Hosting:

For many years now this website has been hosted by Lunar Pages. We have appreciated their service and especially the personal and expert assistance provided by Joshua Knapp as the website has grown busier and migrated to a new server.

Production:

The Program Disk Version of this site is the product of Grog LLC (Alan Grogono, David Grogono, Martin Grogono).

Conversion:

The conversion from the website to the disk was made possible by the expertise and enthusiasm of David E. Grogono of GrogWare.

Design

The graphics, design and artwork for the disk version are courtesy of Martin J. Grogono of the Grogono Group.

Animation:

Alan Grogono ("Grog") took the photographs of each knot and designed the software to display the animations.

Facilities:

The entire project has been possible thanks to the enthusiastic support, proof-reading, and advice of Anthea Grogono who frequently allowed the family kitchen to be employed as a photo-lab for days at a time.