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CHAPTER 10 Fancy Work 327
Hitching 327
One High-Class Knife Lanyard 330
The Turk’s Head: Harmonic Sequence and the Sailor 339
CHAPTER 11 Tricks and Puzzles 348
The Setup 349
Threading a Ring 351
The Jumping Ring 352
Overhand Knot Without Letting Go 353
The Cut-and-Restored String 356
The Professor’s Nightmare 358
Topological Bondage 364
The Mobius Bowline 365
Circling the World 365
Threading the Needle 366
The Good Old Actual Indian Rope Trick 367
The Lovers 367
CHAPTER 12 Sheer Ingenuity 369
Tie-Downs 370
Dinghies and Tenders 373
Mooring and Anchoring 374
Halyards 376
Managing Sails 379
Chart Stowage 380
Lifelines and Tethers 380
Appendix: Additional Tables and Graphs
382
Appendix: Soft Shackle 388
Glossary 392
Bibliography 398
Sources and Resources 400
Index 405
