Knot Know-How

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. Constrictor knot. 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).  Summary. 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.