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described by Phil D. Smith, an American, in
• ~ HUNTER'S BEND about 1950 in a publication called Knots for
Mountaineers. Phil Smith had been working
Also known as; RIGGER'S BEND
on the waterfront in San Francisco during
On 6 October 1968 The Times (London) carried a World War II when he had devised the knot,
report on the front page describing how which he had named a rigger's bend.
Dr Edward Hunter, a retired physician, had It is also easy to untie. [t is based on two
invented a new knot. The article generated a lot overhand knots and is stronger than the
of interest in both Europe and the United fisherman's bend, the sheet bend and the
States, but at the height of the publicity it reef knot, although it is not as strong as the
was found that the knot had already been blood knot.

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The Hun/er's bend is a useful
gelleral purpose knot, which
is stable alld has a good grip.
It is also easy to ulilie.
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