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The Seven Most Useful Knots At Sea.
Reef Knot : Essentially for tying in reefs. This knot can slip if tied with two lines of different sizes.
Bowline : Makes an eye, or loop at a rope's end which will not slip. Useful for mooring-line ends and securing sheets to sails.
Clove Hitch : Secures a line round a bar or rail.
Rolling Hitch : Useful for bending a line to the bight of another rope. Like a clove hitch but with an extra turn. Takes horizontal pull well.
Sheet Bend : For joining fopes of different sizes. If followed round again, becomes a double sheet bend.
Round Turn and Two Half Hitches : Very easy to undo and used most often for securing a line to a post or bollard.
Figure Of Eight Knot : A simple but very useful 'stopper' knot at a line's end, preventing a rope running back through a block.
Whipping.
Although modern ropes can be heat sealed, a whipping is the neatest and most effective way of binding a rope's end. It is always best to make a whipping with waxed twine if available.
Common Whipping.
Lay a loop along the rope end and then take turns tightly round the rope and loop working towards the rope end. Tuck the last turn though the through the loop, pull the loop end tight and cut off excess twine.
Reef Knot : Essentially for tying in reefs. This knot can slip if tied with two lines of different sizes.
Bowline : Makes an eye, or loop at a rope's end which will not slip. Useful for mooring-line ends and securing sheets to sails.
Clove Hitch : Secures a line round a bar or rail.
Rolling Hitch : Useful for bending a line to the bight of another rope. Like a clove hitch but with an extra turn. Takes horizontal pull well.
Sheet Bend : For joining fopes of different sizes. If followed round again, becomes a double sheet bend.
Round Turn and Two Half Hitches : Very easy to undo and used most often for securing a line to a post or bollard.
Figure Of Eight Knot : A simple but very useful 'stopper' knot at a line's end, preventing a rope running back through a block.
Whipping.
Although modern ropes can be heat sealed, a whipping is the neatest and most effective way of binding a rope's end. It is always best to make a whipping with waxed twine if available.
Common Whipping.
Lay a loop along the rope end and then take turns tightly round the rope and loop working towards the rope end. Tuck the last turn though the through the loop, pull the loop end tight and cut off excess twine.
