Sounds an interesting idea, any chance Barewirewalker of you taking a photo and posting the image instead of using Photobucket? I print an A4 sheet but fold it in half and laminate it at A5 so it is easy to carry, but a bit less useful than the A4 view.
Regards Keith
Hi Keith,I still have the photos but unfortunately, as yet have not got around to signing up to another photo hosting site. It is supposed to raining all day tomorrow, perhaps I will continue my rather sporadic research into the alternatives. Not sure I want anything to do with FB but some parts of family seem to think I should sign on and closer family gave up on it a few years ago. So whilst I dither, I will try to compose a written instruction;
Lanyard Method of Carrying Laminated Map.The Lanyard I first prepared 10 years ago is still in use, it is about the length of my arm with the knots tied. I have a roll of duct tape and a wheel hole punch. Having laminate A4 my map, usually double side print off, 1:25,000 scale one side highlighted intended circular route, 1:50,000 scale on other side of general area. I make a tab off one corner of the map with the duct tape, by folding the tape over a corner at 45 degrees so that it folds back on itself reinforcing a corner of the laminate. Punch a hole through the double layer of tape and the sandwiched laminate map. I have always use the 2nd largest punch hole on my wheel punch but this will depend on the thickness of cord you use.
I think the cord I used is 2.5 mm braided nylon picture cord. Use about meter of cord, longer if you are tall.
Knot 1; Fold back one end of the piece of cord and tie a figure of eight knot around both the standing and running parts of the cord, to make a loop, which your forefinger can comfortably fit through. Tighten the knot. Trim the remaining part of the running cord to about 25-30mms and burn the end to seal.
Thread the loop through the punched hole in the corner of the map, hook forefinger through the loop and drag figure of eight knot through with the short tail. Now roll the map longways towards the reinforced corner, pull the standing part of the cord tight back against the cylinder formed and pinch the cord about 25mm short of the end of the rolled cylinder.
Knot 2; Tie an overhand knot on the double cord at this point so that the loop formed is a comfort size to pass over the end of the rolled map. The remaining cord (standing part) is tied onto a small carabiner. The comfortable length I have found, is arms length, the first loop over the tip of my thumb and the carabiner touching my chin.
The standing part of the cord is that part between the map and the carabiner. The running part is the loose used to tie the knot.
Knot 3; Simplest another overhand for the carabiner, but I have used a half reef on the carabiner and a stuns'l halyard bend on the the standing part or possibly a fisherman's bend as this makes adjusting the length of the standing part easy. When burning off the end of the nylon pinching out a little of the molten nylon into a rigid end has made this knot more secure from coming undone.