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HITCHES TO SPAR AND RAIL (RIGHT -ANGLE PULL)

1688. The knots on this page resulted from a search for a hitch

that will draw snug without any working. The last four or five knots

of the previous page must all be worked.

The present hitch appears to be the simplest and most secure of .688

the lot. It draws up inevitably and has an excellent nip under all

circumstances. Moreover it is exceptionally easy to untie.

1689. Make a round turn about the spar, pass the end behind the

standing part and tuck under the first turn. This requires but one

tuck and is as easy to untie as the former knot.

1690. A BACKHANDED HITCH. The next two knots, although they

have a double bearing, require but a single pass around the spar. To

tie this: Pass a bight up the back and down the front of the spar with

the loose end at the right. With the end reach through the bight and

half hitch around the standing part and its parallel part, as indicated

with the arrow. Tie with a long end.

1691. In this case the bight is led over the spar from front to back

and a single tuck of the end is all that is required. It may be some-

what simpler than the foregoing. The knot is hardly so snug as the

rest of the series, but it draws up inevitably and is eminently prac-

tical. Tie with a long end.

1692. This is an interesting knot that, if worked tight as in the

second diagram, will make a very satisfactory SNUG HITCH. It is

easily untied and has but two turns around the spar. If tied slackly

with a long end, the standing part may be pulled on until a third

turn appears around the spar. This forms a very secure hitch that

is quite as symmetrical on the back as on the front and does not jam.

Moreover it is one of the easiest of all to untie.

1693. The left diagram shows a CLOVE HITCH. Pass the end to the

left in back of the standing part and under the crossed turns. The

result is a hitch that is firm, strong, secure and easily untied once the

load has been removed.

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