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Friends of RP: Tying Knots with Gowanus Dredgers

We’ll be joining our friends at Gowanus Dredgers who will be teaching a lesson on how to tye different knots. Your $5 ticket includes pizza and cold drinks. From the Dredgers:

Let's get ready for canoe season - or almost any challenge life throws at you with at our basic knot-tying bootcamp in the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse. Purchase a $5 ticket so we know you are coming.

Can you tie the perfect knot? Attend our class and learn a variety of basic knots; including the Reef, Granny, bowline, clove, roundturn & two half hitches, rolling hitch, figure eight, sheet bend, anchor bend, truckers hitch. Know how to tie them, when to use them, and what they're good for.

Think you know a special knot? Are some knots better than others? Come share your skills and meet some fellow boaters, learn some new rope tricks, and arrive early to find out what Absurdity Emergency is all about. Pizza and cold beverages will be provided.

Earlier Event: February 4
Year Four Launch Party
Later Event: March 5
Tattooing at FIB Tattoo Bar