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Boating Knots: Bends

This knot was used by the US Navy until 1962 to
tether its lighter-than-air ships (zeppelins). Lieutenant
Commander Charles Rosendahl, skipper of the zeppelin
Los Angeles and an American aeronautical hero, reportedly
allowed only one bend to be used on his airship and on
his mooring lines, the zeppelin bend, thus its other name.

Zeppelin B XXend: Step 3 Zeppelin Bend: Step 4
XX

B
XXXring the standing part of the Bring the working end of the
XXX
second line away from the first second line through the loop
line in the opposite direction and in the first line and through
across the second working end, its own loop (as shown in the
as shown in the photograph. photograph), forming two in-
terlocked overhands. As soon as
both standing parts are loaded,
the knot will assume the proper
shape and security.

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