knot knowing

if one is going to learn to sail, one must learn one's knots!  this is me at a local bookstore gathering information so i can practice at home.

what seems awkward now is something i know will get into my muscle memory, so i tie knots in all those in-between times of day; those 3 or 5 or 7 minute segments that aren't really long enough to do something else but too short to waste.