World Record

You'll remember from the Ball of Twine Tie that November is Global Rope Month.

So in a effort to help reach the goal of 50,000 feet of rope used this month, I spent last weekend buying and dyeing 5,400 feet of rope to add to our rope collection, in preparation for the MOAT, the Mother of All Ties.

We are very pleased to claim a World Record for the "Human Ball of Twine" with the most rope (in the single rigger division). We have submitted an application to the Guinness World Records web site, and will know in a month or two whether they will sanction the this event. If they do, we will very likely have to repeat the tie with suitable witnesses for it to be recognized.

So for now, this is an unofficial world record.

Here are the stats:

• Model: Dee Luvbight
• Rigger: Mick Luvbight
• Date: November 14, 2006
• Elapsed time: 2 hrs 49 mins
• Feet of rope: 6,055
• Weight of rope: 86.0 lbs

And for style points, you'll note that it's a suspension!

Dee with rope Our rope inventory 6,000 feet of nylon One rope bottom Start at 2:02pm with 30' of blue More blue At 2:29pm At 2:46pm Rear view at 3:05pm Hold this 3:24pm Need a pillow to prop her up 3:42pm Doest this tie make me look fat? 3:52pm Almost done 3:58pm At 4:05pm we have 5,955 feet Dee is having a ball with a mile of rope Side view Back view Bottom view At 4:17pm we add 100' of rope net A world record: 6,055 feet of rope Let's spin Right side Back Those feet are ticklish At 4:25pm we start unwrapping her Half undone at 4:32pm At 4:38pm we start to see skin Free at last 4:43pm The cold air feels good That took how long? That was fun It feels good to stretch world - 37 All smiles I'm not cleaning up all this rope Nude with rope Marked Peeking What a mess All that rope weighs in at 86.0 lbs