A2Z List of Knot Page 4

Double Davy Knot: The Double Davy Knot attaches the tippet to the fly. It is strong and is tied easily. It is better than the Davy for flies with larger diameter wire.

Double Dragon Loop: The Double Dragon Loop makes and-of-rope loop which is pleasing to tie and the technique is remembered more easily than some others..

Double Fisherman's or Grapevine Bend: The Double Fisherman's provides a secure method for joining two ropes of similar size. The knot is relatively compact and therefore better than some alternatives when retrieving a climbing rope.

Matthew Walker: The Matthew Walker provides a secure stopper in a rope which cannot be untied. It is closely related to the Wall but makes a more bulky and more effective stopper knot.

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.

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.

Sheet Bend (Becket Bend): The Sheet Bend joins two ropes of unequal size but also works well if the ropes are of the same size. It has to be tied with both ends loose in your hands with no load on the ropes.

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."

Double Turle Knot: The Double Turle Knot is used in fly-fishing to tie a hook or fly to a leader.

Drapery (Curtain) Tie back: The Drapery Tie back provides a neat way to pull curtains together.

Dropper Loop: The Dropper Loop makes a secure loop in the middle of a line. It allows an additional fly to be attached to the line.

Duncan (Uni) Knot: The Duncan (Uni) Knot is a versatile loop knot. The Uni series can take the place of most other fishing knots if necessary.

Egg Loop Knot: The Egg Loop Knot provides a secure location to hold fish eggs or roe to be used as bait.

Underwriter's Knot: The Underwriters Knot provides strain relief in an an electircal cable to reduce the risk of fires and shocks.

Hasty (Emergency) Webbing Harness: The Hasty Webbing Harness is made from a length of webbing strap. It creates a temporary webbing seat for use in an emergency.

The Bowline: The Bowline makes a secure loop in the end of a piece of rope. It can be used to secure a line to a ring or post. When there is no strain it can easily be undone.

Buntline Hitch: The Buntline Hitch was originally employed to secure buntlines to square sails. It makes a secure hitch to a ring or a pole. A heavy load tends to tighten the hitch and may make it difficult to untie.

EStar Stopper Knot: The EStar Stopper does not slip even when tied in very slippery rope like Dyneema.

Flat Overhand Knot: The Flat Overhand Knot (aka The European Death Knot) joins to climbing ropes and reduces the risk that they will catch during rappelling.

Siberian (Evenk) Hitch: The Siberian, or Evenk, Hitch is a slipped hitch suitable for tying in cold conditions when wearing gloves.

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.

Farrimond Friction Hitch: The Farrimond Friction Hitch provides a quick method of rigging an adjustable tent ridge line.

Fiador Knot: The Fiador Knot is a decorative knot used as a component of rope halters or hackamores.

Shoelace (Fieggen): The Fieggen Shoelace Bow creates a conventional bow by an ingenious and simple method. After the first Half Hitch, two loops are formed and passed into each other in one quick movement.

Figure 8: The Figure 8 is a stopper knot - it prevents the end of a rope sliding through a pulley or it can be used to add security to another knot. It is relatively easy to undo, is preferred to the Overhand Knot, but is not as secure as the Double Overhand.

Figure 8, or Flemish, Bend or Join: The Figure 8 Rope Join provides a secure, simple method for joining two ropes together. It is used in climbing, is fairly easy to undo, but creates a relatively bulky knot.

Coil Unattached Rope: How to coil an unattached rope in your hands and make a secure bundle which preserves the coil neatly.

Figure 8 Double Loop ("Bunny Ears"): The Double Figure 8 Loop creates two loops in the middle of a rope. The two loops created are stable and resist slipping and changing size.

Figure 8 Flake: The Figure 8 Flake provides a method of laying out a rope on deck so that the rope will run out freely without twists, knots, or tangles.

Figure 8 Follow: The Figure 8 Follow Through creates a Figure 8 loop. It is used when the Figure 8 Loop is being linked to a closed ring or eye, or secured round a bar.