Knot Know-How
How To Tie the Right Knot For Every Job
Published on 25. August 2003
128 pages
978-1-909911-65-9 (ISBN)
Description
This beautiful full-colour book covers knots, splices and whippings. It begins with the ten knots everyone should know. The other knots are grouped by use so that if, for example, you want to make a loop you have eight knots to choose from. Each stage of each knot is illustrated and its uses, strong points and weak points are highlighted.
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08/2003
Fernhurst Books
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Steve Judkins is a member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers. He is a professional sailing instructor and was formerly in the Royal Navy, serving on HMY Brittania.
Content
- Intro
- Copyright
- Contents
- 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
- Fisherman's 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 fist
- 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
- Blood knot
- Double fisherman's knot/Double Englishman's knot
- Twisted loop
- Arbor 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 a seizing)
- Flat seizing
- Needle and palm seizing
- Joining ropes permanently (with a splice)
- Back splice
- Eye splice
- Short splice
- Eye in braid-on-braid rope
- Eye in braid-on-3-strand rope
- Tapering
- Tapering a rope
- Throwing, cleating, winching and coiling
- Throwing a rope
- Cleating a rope
- Winching
- Coiling a rope
