Page 184 - The New Encyclopedia of Knots

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The knot is made in the centre of a rope by taking a turn around your left hand, from the top, and
around your right hand. With your left hand positioned below your right hand, hold the rope in your
right fingers above your left hand and in your left fingers below your right hand (figure 141.1), and
pull your hands apart taking the turns with them (figure 141.2). This forms the finished knot, around

the centre of two bights.

Topping lift: the running rigging from the mast to the outer end of a beam, usually set in pairs, one on
each side of the sail. These relieve the sail from the weight of the beam.

Transom knot: an excellent way of fixing together two crossed pieces of wood or garden canes.

Lay the standing part along the length of one of the pieces of wood and hold it there with your thumb.
Now take the end up along the piece of wood, crossing over the cross piece of wood. Continue by

taking a turn around the back of the first piece, back down diagonally across the standing part, to take
another turn around the back of the first piece of wood, but this time below the cross piece. Bring the
end forward under the turn just completed, and under the first turn, to lie along the first piece of

wood.