Tuesday, November 20, 2012
CAMPING, SAILING, MARINES, SCOUT, TRAVEL: Useful knots, splices, ties, clinches, hitches, bends, nooses, loops, rope works
OVERHAND KNOT
- used for fastening the ends of yarns, strands, ropes, cables, wires, etc.
FIGURE-EIGHT KNOT
- forms an end larger than an overhand knot but has almost similar purpose.
SQUARE KNOT or REEF KNOT
- most widely used, all-around, multi-purpose knot
- very strong knot and yet easy to tie and untie, never slips or jams
- not reliable if used on two ropes of different sizes
OPEN-HAND KNOT
- used for joining two ropes of unequal size or diameter
- quick and easily tied yet never slips
FISHERMAN'S KNOT
- an important knot for anglers and valueble knot for fishermen
- strongest way of fastening thin or fine lines
ORDINARY KNOT
- used for fastening heavy ropes
- easy to make yet very strong and does not slip
- does not strain fibres of the rope
- ropes joined will fall on the same line
WEAVER'S KNOT
- for joining small lines, or twine
- best for joining threads
GARRICK BEND
- best knot for joining two heavy or stiff ropes or hawsers
LARK'S HEAD
- used for fastening a boat or other object where it can be released quickly
- released by pulling out the toggle
SLIPPERY HITCH
- easily made and quickly unfastened by just pulling the free end
TWO HALF-HITCHES
- quick tieing around a post, log, or timber
- holds without loosening, and can stand large strain without slipping
- works even on a smooth, round stick or spar
CLOVE HITCH
- similar purpose as the Two Half-Hitches but more secure
- two half-hitches in opposite directions alongside each other
- also called Builders' Hitch
CONSTRICTOR KNOT
- is an effective binding knot that holds fast on a smooth timber, or a slippery spile
- frequently used by builders for fastening the stageing to the upright posts
- useful in making a tow-line fast to a wet spar, or timber
- similar to a Clover Hitch but with one end passed under the other, forming an Overhand knot
- also called Gunner's Knot
TIMBER HITCH
- used for securing a plank or a spar to be hoisted, hauled or towed
CHAIN HITCH
- very strong method of fastening a line to a timber, a log, or a larger rope for hauling or towing
ROLLING HITCH
- modified version of clove hitch
- best when the object lies parallel to the direction of strain
- best when suspending something on a vertical pole
- best knot for suspending something from the yacht shrouds
MAGNUS HITCH
- often used on shipboard for holding spars
STUDDING-SAIL BEND
- often used on shipboard for holding spars(wooden or metal poles, such as a boom, yard, or bowsprit, used to support sails and rigging)
ROBAND HITCH
- used when a tackle, hook, ring, or another rope must be fastened to a beam by the same rope being used
MIDSHIPMAN'S HITCH
- used for securing the end of a greasy rope to a hook
- half-hitch around the standing part and two round turns above it
CATSPAW
- useful for hoisting with a hook
- made by twisting two loops and then inserting the two small "eyes" into the hook
FISHERMAN'S HITCH
- used in making large hawsers (thick cable or rope used in mooring or towing a ship)
- used to fasten a line to a ring or fixed object
- also called Anchor bend
SHEEPSHANK
- used to temporarily shorten a rope
- used to bypass a weak point in a rope
BOW-LINE
- an excellent multipurpose, multiple application knot
- never slips, jams, or fails
- easily and quickly untied
BOWLINE ON A BIGHT
- very useful in slinging casks or barrels
- used to form a seat for people to be hoisted up or to be lowered down
RUNNING BOWLINE
- a bow-line with the end passed through the loop, thus forming a slip knot
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