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10 The finished Manrope Knot, with its A Double Manrope Knot, doubled by adding a

seizing still in place. You may want to tighten
yours further still or leave it like this and add
another Manrope Knot at the other end of second Manrope Knot at the other end of the
strands.
your strands.

Footrope knot
The Footrope Knot is a three-strand Turk’s Head- Knot – just follow the general pattern of crown,
style knot. It was used to prevent slippage of a wall, tuck up, and finish (or double with crown, wall,
sailor’s feet on the footrope, which was slung under and tuck again if you like to finish in the centre). For
the yard on a square-rigged ship so that the sailors those who study such things, this is the opposite
could have something to stand on when furling of the Manrope Knot, and yet, because the Wall
or setting the sail. The advantage of using this and Crown are simply the inverse of each others’
construction is that it is impossible for the knot structure, they could both be viewed as one and
to move along the line once tied and tightened, a the same! By adding a Footrope Knot right after a
fact greatly appreciated by sailors swinging about Manrope Knot you could easily fool someone into
a hundred feet or so in the air and looking to find thinking it was the same knot, as a nice finish to,
something firm to hold on to with their bare toes! or a part of, for example, a Bo’sun’s Lanyard. Here
Of course, you don’t have to stick this through a are the details of how to tie both the Single and the
footrope to enjoy the attributes of the Footrope Double Footrope Knot.
Single Footrope Knot

1 First, seize (join) three pieces of line together, 2 Next, crown all three strands. The first strand is

using a Constrictor Knot.
started here.