Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps
Manitoulin
Heaving Line Toss
CHARACTERISTICS AND USES OF A HEAVING LINE
The characteristics and uses of a heaving line include: • It is a lightweight flexible line, in order to facilitate throwing. • There must be a heaving knot, or some weighted device, at the end of a heaving line. • It can be used to start the transfer of equipment or personnel between ships or from a ship to a jetty. • It is used to throw a line to a jetty or another boat.
Coiling a line is a traditional way of completing line-handling tasks in the navy, as well as being an important aspect of maintaining equipment in a good state of repair. Heaving a line is a skill that will be useful in several sea cadet activities.
Bight : A bight is any curved section, slack part, or loop between the ends of a rope, string, or yarn.
Standing end : The standing end is the end of the rope not involved in the knot.
Standing part : Section of line between knot and the standing end.
Working end : The active end of a line used in making the knot.
Working part : Section of line between knot and the working end.