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THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS

1446. HAWSER BENDS are always seized and frequently are parceled

to save wear. Two round seizings are sufficient for the FULL CARRICK

BEND.

1446 1441 1447. The SPANISH HAWSER BEND is made secure with two throat

seizings and two round seizings. It is an old method in good

standing.

1448. The OPEN CARRICK BEND will not jam and is strong and

easily tied. But it is a clumsy affair. In bending cables, always leave

long ends.

1449. Diderot's SINGLE CARRICK BEND is reall the SHEET BEND.

It is finished off with Two HALF HITCHES and i well seized should

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prove amply secure. The sketch here is copied from his Encyclo-

pedia of 1762.

1450. (4/10/29.) There are no other well-known and easily untied

bends suitable for lar e material. The present original bend is com-

pact, has an excellent ead, and is not difficult to untie. By raising the

upper loop the knot is easily loosened.

1451. (3/16/37.) This has less initial slip than the CARRICK BEND,

opens almost as easily, is possibly not so strong, but would seem

to be about as secure.

1452. (2/3/34') Another original bend that is as easily untied as

jIj! 1451. It appears to be strong, secure and compact. As it stands,

14so the method of tying is more complicated than could be wished but

this can probably be remedied.

1453. (5/27/24') This bend appears to be the most easily untied

of all.

1454. Two BENDS is a good method of securing two light hawsers

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together, but the two legs require careful adjustment so that they

will have an equal pull. If it is to be used for towing, the ends should

be seized.

1455. Two BOWLINES, or the BOWLINE BEND, gi1'en by Dana

(1841), is more quickly tied than the preceding and is about the

most common of all HAWSER BENDS.

1456. Lever, in 1808, says, "Hawsers are sometimes bent together

thus. The hawser has a half hitch cast in it, a throat seizing clapped

, 45"2.. on the standing part and a round one at the end. Another hawser iii

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