Knot Know-How

Knot Know-How starts with the 10 knots everyone should know and progresses to: Hitches (attaching a rope to an object) Bends (tying two ropes together) Loops Stopper knots Bindings and lashings Fishing knots Fancy knots Judkins then shows how to: Seize two ropes together Taper a rope Coil and throw a line Cleat a rope Splice a rope

Steve Judkins is a member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers and teaches sailing at the Joint Services Adventurous Sail Training Centre.

Introduction
Tools of the trade
Terms
Ropes
Choosing a rope
Ten knots everyone should know
Round turn and two half hitches
Clove hitch
Figure of eight
Reef knot
Bowline
Bowline on a bight
Sheet bend
Double sheet bend
Fisherman's bend/ Anchor hitch
Rolling hitch
Tying a rope to an object (with a hitch)
Summary
Buntline hitch
Constrictoráknot
Surgeon's knot
Timber hitch
Cow hitch
Prusic knot
Marlinespike hitch
Tautline hitch
Klemheist knot
Stunsail halyard bend
Draw hitch
Magnus hitch
Lighterman's hitch
Tying two ropes together (with a bend)
áSummary
Carrick bend
Alpine butterfly bend
Fishermans knot/ Englishman's knot
Zeppelin knot
Hunter's bend
Loops
Summary
Man harness knot/ Artillery loop
Figure of eight loop
Adjustable eye/ Standing eye loop
Angler's loop
French bowline
Stopper knots
Overhand knot
Stevedore's knot
Heaving line knot
Monkey's first
Bindings and lashings
Boa knot
Trucker's hitch/ Dolly knot
Marling hitches
Diagonal lashing
Square lashing
Bottle knot
Shortening a rope
Sheepshank
Fishing knots
Grinner knot
Blood dropper knot
Double fisherman's knot/ Double Englishman's knot
Twisted loop
Arbot knot
Stop knot
Fancy ropework
Turk's head
Portuguese flat sennit
Ocean mat
Wall and crown knot/ Manrope knot
Taking care of a rope's end (with a whipping)
Common whipping
Sailmaker's whipping
Heat sealing
Needle and palm whipping
Making a temporary eye or loop (with seizing)
Flat seizing
Needle and palm seizing
Joining ropes permanently (with a splice)
Back splice
Eye splice
Short splice
Eye in baraid-on-braid rope
Eye in baraid-on-3-braid rope
Tapering
Tapering a rope
Throwing, cleating, winching and coiling
Throwing a rope
Cleating a rope
Winching
Coiling a rope. á
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