C List of Knot

Rope Care/Cleaning: Cleaning, washing, and care of ropes - particularly those used for climbing.

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.

Carrick Bend: The Carrick Bend joins two ropes securely and can readily be untied - even after a heavy load. It is recommended when joining two large tow-line hawsers. The knot deserves to be better known and more widely used.

Carrick Bend Mat: The Carrick Bend is the basis for the design of this small mat.

Celtic Knot Mat: The Celtic Knot makes a pleasing rope mat with a rectangular shape.

Chain Sinnet, Chain Stitch or Monkey Braid: The Chain sinnet converts a cord into a braid that has the appearance of a chain. It is used by climbers to store rope free of tangles, as a decoration, and to shorten and add bulk to a cord, e.g., for the end of a light pull.

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.

Child's Swing: How to hang a swing using a wood plank and secure knots including sliding bowlines and multiple Half Hitches.

Cleat Hitch (Deck): The Cleat Hitch attaches a rope to a cleat. It is frequently used to secure a mooring line to a dock cleat. It has many other uses, e.g., for dinghy bow lines, and sheets. Linked to this page is a another page about cleating a halyard.

Cleat Hitch (Halyard): The Cleat Hitch attaches a halyard to a cleat.

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.

Improved Clinch Knot: The Improved Clinch Knot is used to join fishing line to a hook or a lure, e.g., when attaching a leader to a fly.

Rolling (Taut Line) Hitch: The Rolling Hitch secures a rope to another parallel rope. It is one of the few knots which can be tied and untied while there is a load and can be adjusted without it being untied. It can take the load while a rope is transferred or secured elsewhere.

Clove Hitch (End): The Clove Hitch can be made by passing the end round a bar. Made this way it is useful for attaching boat fenders or adjusting stage scenery. It is tied off after adjustment.

Clove Hitch (Half Hitches): The Clove Hitch is formed by making two Half Hitches. It can be used to attach a rope to a pole or ring. Because it is simple, it is widely known. However, it must be used with caution because it can jam or slip. This page links to a another page showing how to tie the Clove Hitch using the end.

Clove Hitch: The clove hitch is a type of knot. Along with the bowline and the sheet bend, it is often considered one of the most important knots and is commonly referred to as a Double Hitch.

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

Coil Attached Rope: How to coil an attached rope like a halyard or a sheet and then secure the coil so that it can be readily undone to run out freely when required.

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

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

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

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

Common Whipping: This simple whipping technique can be done quickly. During the whipping a loop is incorporated which is used to pull the final turn into the whipping.

Constrictor Knot (Fold): The Constrictor Knot deserves to be much more widely known and used. It is an excellent quick temporary whipping for a fraying rope's end and can be used to keep a rope's end together while it is being whipped. It securely ties the neck of a sack or bag; it has been used as a temporary hose clamp; and it can be used to hold items together for gluing.

Constrictor: The Constrictor Knot consists of a simple Half Hitch which is gripped by an overlying turn of the rope. This is what binds the knot and makes it hard to undo. This page also links to two other pages which demonstrate alternative ways tie this knot.

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.

Constrictor Surgical by Sliding Down Forceps: The Constrictor Knot is tied first and then slid down the forceps and over the vessel.

Constrictor Knot (End): The Constrictor Knot deserves to be much more widely known and used. It is an excellent quick temporary whipping for a fraying rope's end and can be used to keep a rope's end together while it is being whipped. It securely ties the neck of a sack or bag; it has been used as a temporary hose clamp; and it can used to hold items together for gluing.