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CHAPTER 27: OCCASIONAL KNOTS

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With old sailors· it was, and is, a matter of pride to be able to make

knots, the more difficult and obscure the better. • --=

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ALBERT R. WETJEN: Fiddlers' Green, 1941 • . .
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This chapter is devoted to knots that serve a special or individual r, . -- < _.
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purpose. Either they serve the purpose especially well, or else merely •

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better than other knots that offer. ----

Quite a number of the knots that are given here for special pur- -
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poses will also be found elsewhere serving general purposes. •

The chapter also includes a number of odd knots that do not fall

easily under the listings of other chapters, or that here fulfill other

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needs that do not appear under their regular listing. Here also will -_ .....

be found knots that belong to classes so small that they were deemed

insufficient to command a chapter for themselves. There are some

knots here that might have been included among the vocational

knots of Chapter 2, or that are eligible for one of the chapters on •

hitches. The present chapter really serves as a catchall for anything

that does not definitely belong somewhere else.

I was once asked to tie a rope t6 the tapering end of a spar. The

spar tapered only slightly and it was not a difficult thing to do, but

there is a definite limit in that direction to what may fairly be asked

of a knot. If a hitch is made on a cone with a taper that is not too

pronounced, a fairly good knot can be made, provided the very tip

of the rope can be held stationary under a slight pull.

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