NYAA Campcraft

3 August 2007
Hours completed : 1.5 hours
Participants: Jeremy, Yi Wei, Jervin, Yongwei, Yock Siong, Jun Han, Walter, Jonathan Song, Zhi Yang, Andy, Aslam, Nico, Alvin

Today, we learned the tent guy loop which is required for pitching a tent during the NPCC ATC camp.

Firstly, we practise tying the bowline which was required to tie the twine to the tent sheet.

Then we were taught the tent guy loop by Jun Han and Andy.

We practiced by pairing up, 1 person would hold the twine firmly acting as the tent sheet while the other guy would pretend that his foot is the peg and tie the the tent guy loop around his foot.

The knots requried to tie the tent guy loop are the slip knot, half hitch and the half butterfly.

STEPS: (Might not be exact)
1. After winding the twine around the peg, estimate half of the excess to determine the slip knot position on the twine.
2. Tie a slip knot and put the excess though the slip knot, and wind the twine around the peg
3. Tie a half hitch directly above the slipknot and tie a half butterfly at the end of the excess.

PS. we could not pitch up the tent as we could not find a suitable location.