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Essential Knots: Reef knot

Essential Knots: Reef knot

by | Boat Handling, Crewing skills

Essential Knots: Reef knot Use: Tying two ends of rope together, often used for tying up a bundle of loose sail around the boom. Step 1. Take two ends of a rope. Use one as the working end. Step 2. Right over left. Then under. Step 3. Then left over right and under....
Essential Knots: Bowline

Essential Knots: Bowline

by | Boat Handling, Crewing skills

Essential Knots: Bowline Use: Making a secure eye or loop in the end of a rope. Bowlines have many uses on a boat, for example to make a loop in a mooring line to go over a bollard, or to secure a jib sheet to a head sail. This is one of those very useful knots to go...
Essential Knots: Clove hitch

Essential Knots: Clove hitch

by | Boat Handling, Crewing skills

Essential Knots: Clove hitch Use: Tying a rope to posts, bollards, rings or a guardrail. Step 1. Make a turn around the object and lay the working end diagonally back over the standing part. Step 2. Pass the working end round the object and back through the loop. Step...