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The Heaving Line Bend

If there is a great disparity in size between lines that need to be joined,
the single and double sheet bends become unbalanced and therefore
unsafe.
The answer is the heaving line bend, which will join a light messenger
line to rope. As shown, figure eight or “racking” turns pull the thick end
snugly together before the knot is finished off with a half hitch on the

standing part of the thicker line.

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The Rolling Hitch

Moth was anchored with line and chain in a small blind alley in the
north end of Nisiros which is euphemistically called the harbor.
Dusk was coming on when the still air was rent by a whistling puff of
wind out of the north. We paid no great heed, but when a number of men
came sculling out to their fishing boats, their punts frothing at the bow, we
had to.
I told the crew we might have to spend the night at sea, whereupon an
Indian gentleman urgently asked to be put ashore. He just needed to pack
his dressing gown, toiletries, and slippers. By the time he was heading for

the local hotel all but one of the fishing boats had steamed off, heading for
the shelter on the other side of the island, and an ugly six-foot sea was run¬
ning straight into the anchorage.
Abandoned ground tackle was floating everywhere amidst the froth and
each black sea made Moth rear like a nervous stallion.
There being no anchor winch, the anchor line was laid textbook fashion
on the main forward cleat. Nonetheless, the line was jammed beyond

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