The first agenda of year 2009

there is a meeting this saturday ( mini olympics )
make sure all form 2's and 3's are wearing full mufty and bring your PE attire along
for form 1's please wear baju rasmi and school pants. And bring PE attire too...
so all please come for the FIRST agenda of the year.

To all Eagle members (2009)

First of all, to the fellow eagle members, welcome for entering the eagle patrol...

This is your patrol leader, PL Cheah Yizhe.

Please view this blog frequently to get the latest info...

Come for every meetings and agendas

Most importantly, have fun during agendas.

And always remember guys


eagle members - "FLY HIGH"

Eagle Patrol's Past Memories... Enjoy...

LASHING
To produce strong, firmly constructed gadgets you will often need to use different types of lashings - knots join pieces of string or rope or fasten string/rope to pieces of wood or are used to make loops in string etc., lashing uses longer pieces of string to fasten two or more pieces of wood together.

One of the most useful types of lashing is square lashing, so called because it is used to join two pieces of wood together at right angles to each other.
Start off by fastening a length of rope or string (depending on the scale of your project) to one piece of wood with a clove hitch, leaving the free ends roughly the same length. Place the other piece of wood on top of the first piece, in the position you want it fixing, and bring both ends of the string over, take them behind the first piece of wood and cross them behind it, bring them back out and over piece #2, cross behind, back over and so on - see the animated diagram on the right - pulling up firmly all the time; do this three or four times, then wind the ends of the string firmly round between the two pieces of wood (see diagram again) to pull the lashings tight and fasten off with a reef knot. The tighter your lashing, the more firmly the wood will be held.

SIMPLE MANOK
- Use to attach a rope to a pole, this knot provide a quick and secure result. It rarely jams, and can in fact suffer from the hitch unrolling under tension if the pole can turn. Often used to start and finish lashings.

- Tip. If you are in a situation where the clove hitch may unroll, add a couple of half hitches with the running end to the standing end of the knot, turning it into a "Clove Hitch and Two Half Hitches"!

- Tip. When pioneering, use the Round turn and two half hitches to start and finish your lashings instead of the Clove Hitch. It won't unroll, and is easier to finish tying off. It just does not look so neat!

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REEF KNOT
- An excellent general purpose knot for tying two pieces of string or twine together, the reef knot is possibly the most commonly used knot for the job, and is easy to learn.

- Holding one end of each rope in each hand, pass the left rope over the right, and tuck under. Then pass the same rope, now in the right hand, over the left rope,and tuck under.

- It is common to chant "Left over Right and Under, Right over Left and Under" when tying the knot. (This can also be performed as "Right over Left and Under, Left over Right and Under".)

- The reef knot can easliy be undone by gripping one loose end,and pulling it back over the knot, in the opposite direction, thus straightening the rope which is pulled. The other rope forms a Lark's Head knot, and slips off the tugged rope.

- The knot gets its name from its use on sailing ships, when the sails were reefed - rolled up and tied to the cross spar with a reef knot. To release the sail, the sailors would climb the rigging, and work their way along the cross spar, pulling the top end of the reef knot down. They only had to use one hand, holding on with the other. The weight of the sail would cause the reef knot to slip, and the sail would be released.

Tip. If you want to tie two ropes together of similar thickness then never use a Reef knot. Only use it with string and twine when tying parcels, whippings and bindings.

Tip. Never use this knot to join ropes of two different thicknesses.