knots
knots
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knotting can be summarized under three main groups: knots, bends and hitches.
A hitch attaches a line to a post, ring or another line; a bend joins
two lines together; a knot is anything other than a band or a hitch. There are hundreds of sailing knots and much more variations. There is no need to know great number of knots but being familiar with most common can important in critical situations. The only way to gain necessary confidence is to practice the knots over and over again until the movements become completely automatic and instinctive. |
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Sheet Bend
Make a bight in the end of the larger line.
Insert the workig end of the other line, pass it around behind and beneath
both legs of the bight and tuck it beneath itself.
Tighten the knot.
Reef knot
Tie the simple half knot.
Than add a second half knot of the opposite handedness.
Tug firmly on either both ends at the same time to tighten the knot.
Bowline
Make an overhand loop and tuck the end up trough loop. Pass the end around behind the standing part and than tuck it down trough the initial loop. Tighten the knot.
Fisherman's knot
Lay the two lines parallel with the working ends opposed.
With one end tie an overhand not around the other standing part.
Repeat the process with the other end makng sure that both knots are of indentical
handedness.
Tighten the two knots, then pull on the standing parts to slide them together.
Round turn and two half hitches
Take the working end twice around the rail or post and tie a half hitch onto
the standing part of the line.
Add a second indenticel half hitch then tighten the entire knot.
Water bowline
Form an overhand loop and than add a second one beneath it.
Tuck the working end up trough each loop in turn and passit around the standing
part. Tuck it back down trough both loops.
Tighten the knot in two stages, staring with the first loop, than slide the
second loop up.
Fisherman's bend
Take a complete round turn with the working end, trught the ring.
Pass it behind the standing part and trought the turn to trap the initial
half hitch.
Add a second indentical half hitch and than tighten the knot.
Rolling hitch
Pass
the working end around the rail and make a diagonal turn.
Make a second identical turn, fitting it between the first one and standing
one.Make a half hitch on the other side.
Make the knot tight.
The pull must be made on the side of the knot supported by the twin turns.
Figure eight
Make
a bight in the working end of the line and create a loop.
Tuck the working end over and under down trough the loop.
Tighten the knot, pulling down on the standing part of the line.
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