The fleet
Maritime & mooring
Forty-one registered vessels on the Brant buy their standing rigging from the yard, and every one of them moors on Garrow & Voss lines.
Mooring lines
Nine-strand nylon with a soft lay that grips a bollard without biting it. Supplied eyespliced to length, whipped and tarred at the thimble.
Tow bridles
Four-strand manila over steel, rigged V from the tow post, proofed to 14,200 kg. The harbour tug Coalwick Belle runs three of them, on rotation.
Gangway falls & hand-lines
Hard-laid hemp for falls, oiled flax for hand-lines. Both re-laid on trade-in terms when the salt gets in.
Trade-in
Old rope, weighed and retired
Bring a worn line to the yard and the rigger reads its lay under the lens. Lines that pass are re-laid at two-thirds the new price. Lines that fail are cut, and the good halves become fenders, mats and hand-line spools in the retail shed. Nothing usable leaves this yard as waste, which has been the rule since the Voss family took the books in 1911.