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aSher’S BOttLe SLInG
Used for hanging a bottle or other similar
container of liquid.
On board a ship, bottles of liquid—bottles of water, stove lowing the container to be hung safely aside or carried
fuel, alcoholic beverages—can slip, slide, fall, spill, or with greater ease. Asher’s bottle sling is credited to Dr.
break open. This is one of several sling knots that grip Harry Asher and first appeared in print in A New System of
the necks of containers, glass bottle or otherwise, al- Knotting, Volume 2, published in 1989.
Asher’s Bottle Sling: Asher’s Bottle Sling:
Step 1 Step 2
KnOtS YOU need: BOat KnOtS
Begin by tying a piece of twine or cord into Bring the bight on one side across the neck and
the appropriate-size loop. A fine knot for ty- through the bight on the other side, as shown
ing a loop is the double fisherman’s knot (see in the photograph.
page 108). Lay the loop beneath the neck of
the bottle.
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