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figure 7
A bollard with a pair of horizontal arms is known as a staghorn, and you can make fast a mooring line
to a staghorn by taking the line around the bollard, up over one arm (figure 8.1), down, and back
across the same side of the bollard and up over the other arm, returning across the same side of the
bollard again in a figure-of-eight pattern (figure 8.2), repeating the sequence until the line is secure.
This method, which is sometimes called anchoring, permits the line to be cast off even while it is
under load.
figure 8.1
figure 8.2
Bend: a knot which ties together the ends of two free ropes, or the action of knotting two ropes
together; one rope is said to be ‘bent to’ another; see also buntline fisherman’s bend, carrick bend,
double carrick bend, double sheet bend, heaving line bend, hunter’s bend, sheet bend; for fisherman’s
