Marlinspike
Knowing Your Knots

The Bowlines

• Bowline

• Bowline on a Bight

• Portuguese (Spanish) Bowline

Hitches  - Tieing to an Object

• Clove Hitch

• Two Half Hitches

• Buntline Hitch

• Rolling Hitch

• Tieing to a Horn Cleat

Bends - Tieing lines together

• Sheet Bend, and a modification

• Becket Bend on a Bight as a towline towing bridle connection

• (Full) Carrick Bend

• Anchor Bend - Technically a Hitch

Stopper Knots  - making a stop in the bitter end of a line

• Simple Stopper Knots - The Overhand and Figure 8 Knots

Miscellaneous

• Relative Strengths of Common Knots

• Splicing Double Braid

• Monkey's Fist

This page and all original contents are Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Bruce Tetzlaff.

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