'New' lashings

John Thurman's book 'Pioneering Principles' (which I wrote about earlier and you can get here) describes 5 types of lashing for the first time.

2 of these have become widely known 'alternative' lashings- the Japanese lashing and the Filipino lashing.

He describes 3 others that have remained fairly obscure, but are nonetheless pretty useful. Here are excerpts from the book describing these new lashings:

• Scaffold lashing - a square lashing variant for use when poles need to be supported while they are being lashed


• Tourniquet lashing - a FAST lashing for lightweight structures.


• Sailmaker's lashing - an alternative to the figure of eight lashing.