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  • What's your favourite knot?
  • sv
    Full Member

    Care to expand on that?

    The knot weakens a rope, depending on how it 'grips' the rope it is tied in will dictate by how much. Some knots are better than others, I got a book from the library once 😉 It quoted a bowline knotted rope as having 45-50% of it's original strength. Some knots only reduce the strength by 10-15%. Ashley Book Of Knots (ABOK#) being the standard ref. Can't remember the name of the book I read on the subject. I use bowlines for the ease of un-tying but for certain applications and rope diameters have changed to the what I thought was a fishermans knot but it isn't like the ones above. Closest I see to the one I tie is the perfection knot.

    Dave
    Free Member

    Clove hitch or Alpine Butterfly for me thanks.

    el-Gato-Negro
    Free Member

    Alpine Butterfly, use it all the time.

    Figure of Nine over a Figure of eight, easier to undo when its been loaded.

    Double figure of eight is handy

    I love knots!!!

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    Drac
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    thomthumb
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    balloon knot! 😯

    Spongebob
    Free Member

    Although slightly off topic, a proper bow tie knot.

    Bowline's my fave. Reef and clove hitch are good too.

    Should know more seeing as I crew on a reasonable sized yacht.

    headfirst
    Free Member

    1.Reef – so very useful in so many situations, eg. used daily on dressing gown, elegantly simple

    2. Bowline – coz its luvly

    bigyinn
    Free Member


    He likes them, knot a lot.

    IGMC

    uplink
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    aphex_2k
    Free Member

    Snake knot

    nicko74
    Full Member

    bigyin – you sir, are a comedy genius.

    Bowtie knot, definitely, as used in a bowtie.

    JonEdwards
    Free Member

    Alpine butterfly is a great knot. Dead easy to tie and can take full load in any direction. Bunny knot is a great variation on figure 8 for spreading load across 2 anchors.

    Bowline is neat, but comes undone too easily when not loaded, and there's too many people who f'k up tying them and end up dropping what they're supposed to be tying on.

    mrmichaelwright
    Free Member

    nowadays i just stick to a figure of 8 loop and a karibiner and loop stuff through, the knots not going to come undone and i can blame the rope/crab/operator if something expensive hits the deck.

    plausible deniability 8)

    jojoA1
    Free Member

    Our sewing teacher (yes, I am THAT old!!) taught us the line "Not a knot a backstitch" with regard to starting off a hem or other line of stitching…

    I am fond of the double fisherman's for making slings out of lengths of cord and also an overhand knot for joining two ropes to abseil off as it leaves a flat side for the ropes to easily slide over anything when you are retrieving the ropes.

    crispybacon
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    crankboy
    Free Member

    Monkeys fist if the end is propperly spliced .

    CaptJon
    Free Member

    Noose.

    emac65
    Free Member

    Rolling bowline on the bite

    BillMC
    Full Member

    Turk's head and monkey's fist, both beautiful.

    metalheart
    Free Member

    European death knot…

    How else do you get off the cliff?

    KT1973
    Free Member

    Balloon knot

    Haze
    Full Member

    Frayed knot.

    dyna-ti
    Full Member

    i got into making turks head on just about everything i could find,weve got a bit of a glut of napkin rings at our house.
    I keep meaning to get a book and learn ocean plait
    http://www.igkt.net/beginners/images/ocean-plait/ocean-plait1.gif

    Sandwich
    Full Member

    Timber hitch

    sweepy
    Free Member

    the timber hitch is a brilliant knot

    dyna-ti
    Full Member

    Sorry sweepy,a timber hitch is obviously a hitch and not a knot. 😉

    RepackRider
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    2retro4u
    Marin County, Cali

    I like knots. Here are a couple I tied. The first one is almost certainly original, and I don't think I could tie it again, but I tied it once.

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