A2Z List of Knot Page 10

Soft Shackle (Edwards): The Edwards Soft Shackle employs hollow braided rope to create an alternative to the standard soft shackle.

Stronger Soft Shackle: The Stronger Soft Shackle employs a Button Knot and buried tails to produces a stronger version of the soft shackle.

Cobra Knot: The Cobra Knot creates a neat lanyard. It is commonly used in military shoulder lanyards.

Spanish Bowline: The Spanish Bowline provides two loops in a line for use in resue work.

Demonstration of the Brummel Splice Structure: How the Brummel Splice is constructed.

Simpler Eye Splice in Hollow Braid Rope: The McDonald technique offers a simpler method to create a locked eye splice in a hollow braid rope.

Back Splice: The Back Splice provides a quick and convenient way of preventing the end of a three strand rope fraying. A crown knot is formed on the end of the rope and the strands are spliced back into the standing end of the rope.

Create Eye Splice in Hollow Braid Rope: A technique to create a locked eye splce in a hollow braid rope.

Chain Splice: The Chain Splice securely attaches a three-stranded rope to an anchor chain using a modified eye-splice. It allows the rope to follow the chain over the windlass and into the chain locker without tangles.

Eye Splice: In three-stranded rope, the Eye Splice creates a secure loop in the end of the rope. It may used, for example, to secure a rope to the bow of a dinghy, or a rope to a bucket handle.

Long Bury 12-Strand Rope Splice: How to mark, taper, and thread the end for a Long Bury Splice.

Short Splice: The Short Splice makes a secure join between two pieces of three strand rope.

Sliding Splice by Grog: The Sliding Splice makes an adjustable splice suitable for making a yachtsman's belt. It is made by raising loops in alternate strands in a three stranded rope.

Square Knot (Reef): The Square, or Reef, Knot joins equal sized ropes, e.g., sail covers or a parcel. Never use it for human or other critical loads - it may spill into two Half Hitches and then slip. It is frequently tied wrongly as a "Granny Knot."

Square Lashing: A Square Lashing is used to hold two poles at a 90-degree angle to one another.

Square Sinnet: The Square Sinnet provides a neat braid which is decorative and can be used as a hair braid.

Stevedore Stopper Knot: The Stevedore Stopper Knot is a secure stopper of intermediate size which is relatively easy to undo after a heavy load..

Double Overhand Knot: The Double Overhand Knot makes a reliable stopper knot. It forms the basis for other knots such as the Double Fisherman's Bend.

Stopper Loop: The Stopper Loop provides an attachment point for a sheet with soft shackle loop at the end.

The Strangle Knot Tied with End: The Strangle Knot is a moderately secure knot to prevent the end of a rope fraying

The Strangle Knot Tied with a Loop: The Strangle Knot is a moderately secure knot to prevent the end of a rope fraying

Poacher's Knot: The Poacher's Knot makes a very secure loop in the end of a piece of rope and is useful with modern high modulus ropes.

Girth Hitch (Strap Hitch): The Girth Hitch is used to attach the loop of a webbing strap to your harness or another piece of webbing strapping. It is also known as the Lark's Head, the Cow Hitch, and the Lanyard Hitch. This page links to two other pages showing how to tie related knots.

Super Munter Hitch: The Super Munter Hitch provides a secure method of controlling the descent of a heavy load.

The Surgeon's Knot: The Surgeon's Knot joins two fishing lines of moderately unequal size, e.g., when attaching a tippet to a leader.

Surgeon's Loop: The Surgeon's Loop is a quick and easy way to make a loop in the end of your line.

Surgeon's Shoelace: The Surgeon's Shoelace Bow is based on the standard bow but is more secure due to an additional wrap for both parts of the bow.

Constrictor Surgical Around Forceps: The Constrictor Knot is tied around the forceps in place.

Howard Constrictor Using Instrument Tie: The Howard version of the Constrictor Knot is completed using an instrument tie.

Constrictor Surgical Retrieving End: The Constrictor Knot is tied around the vessel and the end is then retrieved using forceps.