Page 5 - Eric C. Fry - Knots and Ropework

Contents

Introduction 26 Stage or scaffold hitch
27 Lighterman's hitch
PART ONE 28 Square knot
Knots 29 Bargee's eye splice
Overhand or thumb knot, half-hitch, 30 Monkey's fist
round turn and two half-hitches
2 Double thumb knot Rope Splices
3 Figure of eight 31 Eye splice
4 Continuous fi gures of eight 32 Short splice
5 Reef knot 33 Long splice
6 Carrick bend (two types) 34 Back splice
7 Diamond knot 35 Cut splice
8 Sheet bend, double sheet bend 36 Eye splice in middle of rope
9 Binder turn 37 Flemish eye
10 Tom Fool's knot 38 Single tuck eye splice with wall knot
11 Man harness (chair knot) from Fool's finish
knot 39 Chain splice
12 Sheep shank from Fool's knot.
pinned sheep shank Decorative Knots
13 Sheep shank 40 Shroud knot
14 Shamrock knot 4' The untiable knot
15 Bowline, running bowline 42 Wall knot
16 Bowline on a bight 43 Crown knot
17 Clove hitch (cast), clove hitch 44 Man-rope knot from conjoined wall
(turned) and crown
18 Rolling hitch 45 Turk's head
19 Fisherman's bend or bucket hitch 46 Ocean plait and/or mat
20 Timber hitch
21 Cat's paw Wire Splices
22 Backwall hitch, midshipman's 47 Admiralty eye splice
hitch 48 Liverpool eye splice
23 Thief knot or draw hitch 49 Flemish eye splice
24 Jury masthead knot 50 Long splice
25 Rope ladder knot 51 Grommet