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What's your favourite knot?
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Monkeys fist for me, only ever managed to do one properly once.
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Double sheet bend
closely followed by
the chair knot
Gordymac ;o)
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ck - i've spent many a while laughing at riggers trying to tie monkey's fist knots to get a line over a bar. In general the time it takes for them to get it right is significantly less than that which it takes me to procure and erect some other form of access! I can't tie them for toffee.
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I quite lot the Beijing Knot a lot..
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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.
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Clove hitch or Alpine Butterfly for me thanks.
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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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balloon knot!
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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.
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1.Reef - so very useful in so many situations, eg. used daily on dressing gown, elegantly simple
2. Bowline - coz its luvly
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He likes them, knot a lot.IGMC
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The Palomar
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Snake knot
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bigyin - you sir, are a comedy genius.
Bowtie knot, definitely, as used in a bowtie.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Monkeys fist if the end is propperly spliced .
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Noose.
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Rolling bowline on the bite
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Turk's head and monkey's fist, both beautiful.
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European death knot...
How else do you get off the cliff?
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Balloon knot
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Frayed knot.
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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
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Timber hitch
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the timber hitch is a brilliant knot
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Sorry sweepy,a timber hitch is obviously a hitch and not a knot.
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