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		Knots used to secure another knot should be as close as possible to the main knot and oriented to fit tightly against it.
		Of the fourteen required knots, four are based on the overhand knot (overhand knot, water knot, square knot, double fisherman's bend), and four are secured with overhand knots (bowline, mountaineering bowline, bowline on a coil, and helical).
		This knot is usually tied near the end of a rope and used as a main rigging knot.
	www.cave.org.vt.edu /knots.shtml (4360 words)

	Ropemaking - Heraldic Knots
		One of the reason knots were not commonly depicted in any form (even in knot descriptions) in the Middle Ages (and earlier) was because of their close association with magic and witchcraft.
		The figure 8 knot, the overhand knot, the square knot, the carrick bend and the left-hand sheet bend are the more commonly found examples of this knot.
		The period of the greatest use of the knot badge was during the periods of civil unrest of the 14th to the 16th centuries.
	www.rope-maker.com /heraldicknots.html (1545 words)

	Wikinfo \| Knot
		Some knots are well adapted to bind to particular objects such as another rope, cleat, ring, stake or to constrict an object.
		Knots have been the subject of interest both for their ancient origins, common use or the mathematical implications of knot theory.
		For example, loop knots share the attribute of having some kind of an anchor point constructed on the standing end (such as a loop or overhand knot) into which the working end is easily hitched to using a round turn).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Knot (845 words)

	Sailing Lessons, Advanced Nautical Knots
		Knots on the average will reduce the strength of a line by about 50%, a splice reduces the strength by around 10%.
		The knot on the bottom is defined by some British knotting books as a rolling hitch but is a variant of what Ashley calls a "Awning Knot with a Half Hitch" or a "Midshipman Knot".
		The bottom knot is similar to a taut line hitch except that a taut line hitch is doubled back on itself and tied to the standing part of the line.
	www.cruising.sailingcourse.com /advanced_knots.htm (395 words)

	ROPES AND KNOTS \| CHANDLERY SAILING AND MOTOR BOAT EQUIPMENT \| SOLAR NAVIGATOR WORLD ELECTRIC NAVIGATION CHALLENGE.
		A 'Knot' is also a measure of speed in water, which gains its name from the distance between two knots of a piece of rope.
		A rope containing a knot is weaker than an unknotted rope, because the loops of the knot impose uneven stresses upon the rope fibers.
		A knot that is used as part of a magic trick, a joke, or a puzzle.
	www.solarnavigator.net /knots.htm (958 words)

	Knot Break Strength vs. Rope Break Strength
		All the knots were tied by the same person and the test were conducted in a relatively controlled environment.
		Standard Deviation is the square root of (the sum of the squared deviations from the mean, divided by the sample size minus one) In formulae it is often represented by the letters SD or the symbol (Greek letter) sigma.
		The Figure 8 knots were slightly more efficient with the 10.5mm a little better than the 7mm with the 12.5mm the least.
	www.caves.org /section/vertical/nh/50/knotrope.html (1212 words)

	Basic Knots -- Part 2: Bends and hitches
		The double overhand bend is also known as a "double fisherman's knot." Some people appear to be in the habit of abbreviating its name to "fisherman's knot," but this usage is not standard except among climbers, and should be avoided.
		This bend is not widely used in SAR, but is a useful way to join two ropes which may or may not be of the same diameter and you should be familiar with it.
		Not often used by the SAR folk we'll deal with, the sheet bend can also be used to join two ropes; there are some teams on the web that advertise this as their preferred bend, but AMRC uses the figure 8 bend and the double overhand bend, so that's what we do.
	www.swcp.com /csar/knots/knots2.shtml (765 words)

	Carrick bend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This decorative knot has the same topology as the carrick bend above, as can be seen by tracing the paths of the outermost blue and red lines.
		Unless the two free ends are lashed (seized) to the two standing parts, the knot will collapse (capsize) into a different shape under load, which does not reduce its strength in any way.
		In this configuration the knot is known as the Josephine knot (macrame) or double coin knot (Chinese knotting).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carrick_bend (340 words)

	Bends
		This knot is somewhat similar to the Ashley Bend, the Hunter's Bend, and the Zeppelin Bend, and it should only be used with two ends of rope which are roughly the same thickness.
		This knot is somewhat similar to the Alpine Butterfly Bend, the Hunter's Bend, and the Zeppelin Bend, and it should only be used with two ends of rope which are roughly the same thickness.
		This knot is somewhat similar to the Alpine Butterfly Bend, the Ashley Bend, and the Zeppelin Bend, and it should only be used with two ends of rope which are roughly the same thickness.
	www.layhands.com /knots/Knots_Bends.htm (7757 words)

	Alabama Boating License and Boat Safety Course - Tying Nautical Knots
		Knowing how to securely tie knots will not only keep your vessel and equipment secure when tying off to piers and mooring buoys, but may also be an emergency procedure if you are forced to anchor in open water during bad weather.
		Forming the knot creates a fixed loop on the end of the rope or line—a loop which can be used for hitching, mooring or lifting.
		Anchor Bend Knot: A type of hitching knot, the anchor bend is used to secure a rope to an anchor or a ring.
	www.boat-ed.com /al/course/p2-5_linesandknots.htm (442 words)

	Carrick Bend
		This version of the Carrick Bend is also called the Full Carrick Bend, Anchor Bend, or Sailor's knot.
		It is symmetrical, it is easy to tie, it does not slip easily in wet material, it is among the strongest of knots, it cannot jam and is readily untied.
		Before crossing over the loop, dip the bitter end of the second line into the loop in the first and pass under its own standing part and then back up out of the loop.
	www.dirauxwest.org /knots/car_bend.htm (164 words)

	Sheet Bend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Sheet bend is used to join together 2 lines of different diameters.
		It is useful when using a light heaving line to pass a heavier tow line to a boat or dock line to shore.
		A Becket Bend on a Bight can be used to attach a tow line to an all-rope towing bridle.
	www.dirauxwest.org /knots/sheet_bend.htm (122 words)

	Peter Suber, "Six Exploding Knots"
		If the knot is grabbed like a knob, and pulled in a certain direction, then the bight that composes the ripcord will simply pull out, freeing the knot in a quiet explosion --not a bang, but a whimper.
		This and the sliding sheet bend (knot #4) are the easiest to tie of the six knots presented here, which makes it the easiest of the non-sliding knots.
		The slide is controlled by one more bend in the rope than the sliding sheet bend (knot #4) which makes it stronger when locked.
	www.earlham.edu /~peters/writing/explode.htm (2842 words)

	Learn to tie knots!
		This is a commonly used knot to tie a loop in the end of a rope.
		The Square knot can easily be undone by gripping one loose end, and pulling it back over the knot, in the opposite direction, thus straightening the rope, which is pulled.
		The overhand knot is commonly tied in a loop formed at the end of a rope, forming the Overhand Loop.
	troop221.8m.com /knots.htm (1180 words)

	Shooting Star's Marlinspike Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Anchor Bend - This knot is used to secure a rope or a line to an anchor.
		Clove Hitch - This knot is the "general utility" hitch for when you need a quick, simple method of fastening a rope around a post, spar or stake.
		Becket Bend on a Bight as a towline towing bridle connection.
	www.sacdelta.com /safety/knots (323 words)

	Knots: This site describes how to tie over 35 knots
		Knots are intertwined loops of rope, cord, string or other flexible material, used to fasten two such ropes to one another or to another object.
		Knots, Bends, Hitches, Splices and Seizings are all ways of fastening cords or ropes, either to some other object such as a spar, or a ring, or to one another.
		The knot is formed to make a knob on a rope, generally at the extremity, and by untwisting the strands at the end and weaving them together.
	www.2020site.org /knots (480 words)

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		Ashley's bend lacks the pleasing curves of the sheet bend or the organized folds in the carrick bend.
		Knot aficionados say that for them, the book has long been part-bible and part-encyclopedia, but always a work of art.
		``A knot is never `nearly right'; it is either exactly right or it is hopelessly wrong,'' Ashley wrote toward the end of his life from his home in Westport, where one of his daughters (a speaker this week) still lives.
	www.anselm.edu /homepage/gbuck/globeart.html (857 words)

	Essential Climbing Knots - Introduction
		All knots bend the rope, and so all knots reduce to a degree the strength of the rope in which they are tied.
		Some knots are harder to "see'" than others, and in the beginning at least, you ought to stick with the symmetrical ones.
		Begin with a knot put into a single strand to be followed—retraced—by the second strand as the knot is completed.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/publishers/trailside/cli_knots.htm (279 words)

	Decorative Knots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Lanyard knots is an example with blimp knot, braid knot, Chinese cloverleaf knot oblong knot, mystic knot, pectoral knot, Chinese lanyard knot, good luck knot, knife lanyard knot, foot rope knot, wall knot and Matthew Walker Knots.
		Basic knotting information such as multiple overhand knots, crown knots, overhand bend, one-way back-tucked sheet bend, tumbling thief knot and Fisherman's knots are added to the tips and techniques pages.
		Some of the knots are illustrated as flat with directional arrows of path movement, while other knots are illustrated with a three dimensional piece in the background and the knot setting on the piece and in the foreground.
	www.beadwrangler.com /book-knot5.htm (540 words)

	Knot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Another way of thinking about this knot, or rather the relationship between this one and Hunter's Bend, is that each is formed by taking one of the differing sides of a Lineman's Loop (Ashley 1043) and duplicating it symmetrically.
		If it is tightened primarily with tension on the standing parts, the knot is very easily untied by pulling on the outer loops, though still not as easily as Ashley's Bend with its "unwinding" action.
		If not sufficiently loose, the knot fails to capsize completely, and the intermediate form is not as strong as when completely capsized, which is according to Ashley "one of the strongest of bends".
	library.wustl.edu /~manynote/knot.html (1881 words)

	Rescue Response Gear - Newsletter
		It forms the backbone of the all the "family of 8 knots"; bend, Double and In-Line, as well as a stopper.
		The knot’s ability to hold the load depends on the number of wraps, the surface friction and the diameter of the tree or post (must be at least 8 times the diameter of the rope.
		The use of an Overhand Knot on the standing end of the rope (prior to tying the finish 8 at the end; see CMC RRM III), decreases the rotational load that a Tensionless Hitch would place on the anchor.
	www.rescueresponse.com /html/news04-02/technique.html (946 words)

	knots to use, a knoting introduction
		These knots are selected for their tying ease and usefullnes, most examples will be followed with more advanced variations as we progress.
		This weakens the strength of the rope, knots may be rated by percentages of how much havoc they cause on the over all strength of the rope.
		Figure of eight, is another stopper knot, this is larger than the overhand, it can be untied, and it has less impact on the overall strength of the rope.
	www.seadercraft.com /knots-2Use.html (1426 words)

	Knots \| Sheet Bend \| 4th Tyldesley Scouts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Sheet Bend is commonly used to tie two ropes of unequal thickness together.
		The thicker rope of the two is used to form a bight, and the thinner rope is passed up through the bight, around the back of the bight, and then tucked under itself.
		The knot should be tied with both ends coming off the same side of the bend, as illustrated here.
	www.4thtyldesley.co.uk /skills/knots/knot011.htm (127 words)

	Twentieth Century Knots - Zeppelin & Riggers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Discovery or invention of a new knot is considered to be the ultimate challenge by many knot tyers.
		The Eastern Zeppelin is a variation of the Zeppelin or Rosendahl Bend.
		The distinct feature of this bend is that it is exceptionally easy to break and tightens consistently to hold when pulled (even if somewhat loosened).
	whatknot.tripod.com /knots/knot20th.htm (209 words)

	Scouting Resources - Knots - Index
		Knots and pioneering can become a very useful skill in itself as well as a platform for showing what advantage scouting can offer over other youth organisations.
		Once you have learnt the basic ideas and knots in the cubs and progressed on through the troop you will begin to pick up those true pioneering skills.
		Each knot has a short description and (almost) every one has an illustration demonstrating the knot.
	www.scoutingresources.org.uk /knots_index.html (335 words)

	Boating Knots
		Bowline : This knot is used to place a secure loop in the end of a line.
		Best used as a binding knot where it is under a constant tension.
		This is a strong knot and can be used in overboard rescue, as a towing bridle and in a pinch, even to make a boatswain's chair to be used to ascend the mast.
	www.uspowerboating.com /knots.htm (425 words)

	Knots 101, by Lefty Kreh
		Pull the tag end until the knot is snug, not tight.
		To tighten the knot, pull slowly on the standing line until the knot seats against the hook eye.
		Knot photos and accompanying captions are courtesy of Frog Hair and Gamma Technologies.
	www.flyfisherman.com /skills/lkknots/index15.html (454 words)

	Real Knots: Knotting, bends, hitches and knotcraft.
		knot knots knotting tie tying rope yarn hitch hitches bend scout sail climb marlinespike.
		Not all the knots are safe for children to play with.
		You can access Ropers knot pages also via bonus.com which blocks all unsafe links, also those to the nooses, but needs a high performance browser and connection.
	www.realknots.com /knots/index.htm (400 words)

	Ropers Knot Pages, Real Knots: Knotting, bends and hitches.
		Knots, Bends and Hitches Instruction on 4 knots.
		Single Carrick Bend A poem on this famous knot.
		Knots, Bends, and Hitches A great tekst on knots.
	www.realknots.com (384 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Less complicated than the knot you put in your shoelaces, the Figure-Of-Eight is an ideal basic knot for use at the end of a line to prevent a sheet or line from slipping through a block.
		Loop the line around the base, under the arms of the cleat, then bring it up and over diagonally, around and under one arm, then over, around and under the other, in a continuous figure eight, securing the bitter end by tucking it under the last crossover.
		The Sheet Bend, used to tie two ropes together, is at its best when things are complicated by ropes of unequal size.
	www.neropes.com /splice/knots.htm (576 words)

	Sheet Bend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Celtic knots are called 'knots' and so you might think they are connected to real knots.
		Don't tighten the knot until it is finished, and keep the crossed loop of the second string from slipping off the first loop.
		To untie it, loosen the knot a little, slip the second loop off the first, pull out the first string and you will be left with a slip knot in the second, which you can easily pull out.
	gwydir.demon.co.uk /jo/knots/sheet.htm (288 words)

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