This ridiculous, beautiful non-functional saddle is made entirely of decorative sailors knots - conceptually, it redacts usefulness instead celebrating design, objecthood, and materiality. I explore parallels between the sailor and the cowboy with new work making cowboy accoutrements made from sailor’s materials, and vice-versa. While whalers and sealing men travelled north toward the arctic expanses of ice, cowboys coaxed their cattle drives through the Southwest to Kansas. Shared tools of the trade include rope work, carpentry for mending and jury-rigging, working through rough weather while traveling long distances thorough open expanses, and physical strength and fortitude.