Page 341 - The Ashley Book of Knots

THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS

2040. Signal flags on yachts are commonly sent aloft on a small

staff. The flag is seized twice to its staff and the halyard is clove

hitched just below the lower seizing, and single hitched or clove

hitched near the bottom of the staff. The two ends of the halyard are

generally bent together.

2041. To secure the bight of a rope to a perforated post: Reeve

a bight through the hole and turn it back over the top of the post.

2.041 This is used in staking off and on clothes posts.

2042. In parceling, in bandaging and in passing, gaskets or other

flat material, if the lead requires deflection, fold t'he material half

over, crease and smooth down the fold, and lead in the direction

wanted.

2043. To secure the end of a line to a perforated post: Reeve the

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line through the hole in the post, then make a SINGLE HITCH over the

top of the post with the end.

2044. To hang a loaded sack from an eyebolt or a hook. Make

fast a strap, of marline or heavier material, to the ey~ with a RING

HITCH (~I 859). Then make a BALE SLING HITCH (~I 694) in hand

and slip it over the neck of the sack.

2045. To hang a partiqlly loaded sack to a hook without employing

a rope, tie a BLACKWALL HITCH with the neck of the bag. First lay

the end in the mouth of the hook, then lead the neck around the back

of the hook and through the mouth.

2046. To hitch to a stancbion: Haul the rope taut. Bring the end

- around the post and take a turn around the standing part. Bring
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around the standing part and lead back again. Take as many of these

turns alternately left and right as desired, hauling each taut, and

finally half hitch the end to the standing part. If possible wrap the

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paper. This hitch must be made tightly so that it cannot "work."

2047. Another method of tying to a rectangular timber. Take

five or six close turns around a timber and with the end take Two

HALF HITCHES around the standing part.

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2048. To tow a boat alongside in such a way that she will sheer

off and be in no danger of colliding: Bring the painter aft, passing

it under a thwart, then lead it forward through a rowlock to the side

of the ship.

2049. A notched arrow for a throwing stick. An OVERHAND KNOT

is tied in the end of a cord that is fast to a whiplike stick. The

knot is adjusted in a shallow slot or notch near the fore end of the

arrow which has been whittled from a shingle. The arrow is thrown

with a lash of the whip. I learned this, when a boy, from Dan

Beard's American Boy's Handibook. In this book was the first dis-

cussion of knots that I had ever read.

2050, 2051. In fishing, off a beach, a bag of sand is about the best

anchor that can be found. On a wide beach the distance that the boat

must be dragged or rolled, to reach the water's edge, or to be above

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