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Jack Ketch’s knot see hangman’s knot.

Jury mat: this is based on the jury mast head knot (see page 103) with the

four bights being arranged as in figure 82.1. The central bights are then
drawn out over one, under one, over one to the right and under one, over
one, under one to the left (figure 82.2). The next move is to cross the new
central bights, the right-hand bight over the left, and then reeve the
working end (shown bottom right in figure 82.1) through the centre of
the mat from right to left continuously over one, under one (figure 82.3).
Take the working end down to meet the standing part and use it to

‘follow round’ the original formation to fill in the skeleton twice to
complete the mat (figure 82.4).

figure 82.1

figure 82.2