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Knots You Need to Know, and ™ Its Brightly Colored Photographs Take You Step by Step Through Each Bend and Turn ™ MAKE IT EASY! Untie the mystery of knot-making with this clever and handy guide. This new volume presents all the knots you need to know, and ™ its brightly colored photographs take you step by step through each bend and turn. YOU KNOTS KNOTS The book provides information on using these multi-purpose knots in most popular activi- ties and covers a full range of stoppers, bends, loops, and hitches. This is the one volume you CLEAN HOME, GREEN HOME can count on to guide you toward quick YOU NEED success for all your knot needs. Buck Tilton has the Knack! He is a wilderness medicine expert and a writer on backpacking More than 400 Photos N Knots for Camping * Boating * and hiking-related topics whose many books Climbing * Fishing * Decorative for GPP’s FalconGuides® imprint have sold more EED than 100,000 copies combined. He lives in Projects * and much, much more Lander, Wyoming. ™ Cover design by Paul Beatrice Printed in China Step-by-Step Instructions for More Than 100 of the Best Sailing, $19.95 US / $21.95 CAN Knack is an imprint of ISBN: 978-1-59921-395-8 Fishing, Climbing, Camping, and Decorative Knots The Globe Pequot Press EAN Guilford, Connecticut www.KnackBooks.com BUCK TILTON CLEAN HOME,GREENHOME TILTON KNKnotsYouNeed.indd 1 DELANEY 4/30/09 12:32:10 PM DELANEY ™ KNOTSCLEAN HOME,GREENHOME YOU NEED DELANEY KNACK™ KNOTS YOU NEED Step-by-Step Instructions for More than 100 of the Best Sailing, Fishing, Climbing, Camping, and Decorative Knots BUCK TILTON WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY BOB HEDE ™ Guilford, Connecticut An imprint of The Globe Pequot Press CLEAN HOME,GREENHOME DELANEY CONTENTS Introduction ........................................... 8 Chapter 6: Boat Knots: Stoppers Double Overhand Knot ................................ 52 Chapter 1: Camping Knots: Stoppers Ashley’s Stopper Knot ................................. 53 Overhand Knot ........................................ 18 Overhand Knot with Draw Loop ....................... 19 Chapter 7: Boat Knots: Bends Heaving Line Knot ..................................... 20 Carrick Bend ........................................... 54 Figure 8 Knot .......................................... 22 Vice Versa .............................................. 56 Figure 8 Knot with Draw Loop ......................... 24 Zeppelin Bend ......................................... 58 Chapter 2: Camping Knots: Bends Chapter 8: Boat Knots: Loops Square (Reef) Knot .................................... 25 Scafold Knot .......................................... 60 Sheet Bend ............................................ 26 Bowline ............................................... 62 Double Sheet Bend .................................... 27 Bowline on a Bight .................................... 64 Double Bowline ....................................... 66 Chapter 3: Camping Knots: Loops Triple Bowline ......................................... 68 Figure 8 Loop .......................................... 28 Running Bowline ...................................... 70 Overhand Loop ........................................ 30 Midshipman’s Hitch .................................... 72 Slip Knot (Simple Noose) ............................... 31 Hangman’s Knot (Noose). 32 Chapter 9: Boat Knots: Hitches Anchor (Fisherman’s) Bend ............................. 74 Chapter 4: Camping Knots: Stationary Hitches Buntline Hitch ......................................... 76 Half Hitch .............................................. 34 Highwayman’s Hitch ................................... 78 Two Half Hitches ....................................... 35 Rolling Hitch. 80 Clove Hitch ............................................ 36 Camel Hitch ........................................... 81 Clove Hitch on a Stake ................................. 37 Pole Hitch ............................................. 82 Clove Hitch on a Ring .................................. 38 Pile (Post) Hitch ........................................ 84 Cow Hitch (Simple) .................................... 39 Constrictor Knot ....................................... 85 Cow Hitch (Pedigree) .................................. 40 Double Constrictor Knot ............................... 86 Bull Hitch .............................................. 42 Transom Knot ......................................... 44 Chapter 10: Boat Knots: Miscellaneous Sheepshank ........................................... 88 Chapter 5: Camping Knots: Moving Hitches Eye Splice ............................................. 89 Trucker’s Hitch ......................................... 46 Back Splice ............................................ 90 Tautline Hitch .......................................... 48 Asher’s Bottle Sling .................................... 92 Timber Hitch .......................................... 50 Common Whipping ................................... 94 Killick Hitch ............................................ 51 Chapter 11: Climbing Knots: Hitches Chapter 15: Fishing Knots: Joining Lines Bachmann Hitch ....................................... 96 Interlocking Loops .................................... 149 Girth Hitch ............................................ 98 Blood Knot ...........................................150 Munter (Italian) Hitch .................................. 99 Albright Knot ......................................... 152 Garda Knot ...........................................100 Double Uni-Knot .....................................154 Klemheist Knot .......................................101 Prusik Knot ...........................................102 Chapter 16: Fishing Knots: Loops Round Turn and Two Half Hitches ..................... 104 Angler’s (Perfection) Loop ............................156 Trombone Loop ......................................158 Chapter 12: Climbing Knots: Bends Rapala Knot ..........................................160 Hunter’s (Rigger’s) Bend ..............................105 Dropper Loop ........................................162 Fisherman’s Knot .....................................106 Double Overhand Loop. .164 Double Fisherman’s Knot .............................108 Water Knot ...........................................110 Chapter 17: Decorative Knots: Bowknots Figure 8 Bend ......................................... 112 Japanese Bowknot ...................................165 Simple Bowknot ...................................... 166 Chapter 13: Climbing Knots: Loops Sheepshank Bowknot ................................. 168 Figure 8 Follow-Through .............................. 114 True Lover’s Knot .....................................170 Figure 8 Double Loop ................................. 116 Figure 8 Triple Loop ................................... 118 Chapter 18: Decorative Knots: Lanyard Knots Alpine Butterfy ....................................... 120 Simple Lanyard Knot .................................. 172 Spanish Bowline ...................................... 123 Four-Ply Knot ......................................... 173 Loop Knot ............................................ 126 Five-Lead Flat-Sinnet .................................174 Braid Knot ............................................176 Chapter 14: Fishing Knots: Hook and Tackle Knots Crown Knot ..........................................178 Arbor Knot ...........................................127 Two-Strand Matthew Walker Knot ....................180 Improved Clinch Knot ................................128 Chinese Butterfy Knot ................................ 181 Dry Fly Knot ..........................................130 Knife Lanyard Knot. .182 Uni-Knot .............................................132 Double Turle Knot ....................................134 Chapter 19: Decorative Knots: Button Knots Crawford Knot ........................................ 136 Chinese Button Knot .................................. 184 Cairnton (Woods) Knot ...............................137 Eight-Part Button Knot ................................ 186 Trilene Knot ..........................................138 Simple Snell ..........................................140 Chapter 20: Decorative Knots: Miscellaneous Snelling a Hook ....................................... 142 Monkey’s Fist .........................................188 Tandem Hook Knot ................................... 143 Turk’s Head ...........................................190 Swivel Knot ........................................... 144 Simple Chain Sinnet (Monkey Chain) . 192 Palomar Knot ......................................... 146 Chinese Flat Knot ..................................... 194 World’s Fair Knot ...................................... 148 Knots in Action ......................................196 Index ................................................204 INTRODUCTION Long before mallet and peg, hammer and nail, glue, ad- needed a knot or two, or three. Knots were used for com- hesive tape, or Velcro, there was cordage—and the knots munication, for record-keeping, in religious rites, and for that made it useful. Beside the unknown inventor of the corporal punishment. It was at sea, though, under sail, wheel and the forgotten discoverer of fre-making, we that the science and art of knot-tying blossomed. As the should rank equally as a genius the man or woman who scope and practice of ships at sea expanded, so did the fgured out how to entangle the ends of vines and plants’ knots—in both form and function—which made their fbers in ways that would keep them from untangling. undertakings possible.
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