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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.
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
Snake knot
bigyin - you sir, are a comedy genius.
Bowtie knot, definitely, as used in a bowtie.
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.
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)
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 .
Noose.
Rolling bowline on the bite
Turk's head and monkey's fist, both beautiful.
European death knot...
How else do you get off the cliff?
Balloon knot
Frayed knot.
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
Timber hitch
the timber hitch is a brilliant knot
Sorry sweepy,a timber hitch is obviously a hitch and not a knot. 😉
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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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