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Index

A bends 76–107 Spanish bowline 117, 141 exploding clove hitch 23, 33
adhesive shrink tubing 246 adjustable bend 96 tails on bowlines 116 reasons for failure 32
adjustable bend 96 alpine butterfly bend 78, 82, 84 triple loop bowline 142 sheepshank with clove hitch 163
Admiralty, British 204 barrel knot 85 trucker’s hitch 74 slipped clove hitch 32, 33
The Admiralty Manual of blood knot 85 tucked bowline 115 tied in the bight 32, 34
Seamanship 15, 56 braided splice 106–7, 128 twin bowlines 97, 98 use on bollards 62
Age of Discovery 12 broach bend 87 use in modern ropes 274 variations of 25, 36, 37, 43
Age of Sail 88, 141, 248 carrick bend 78, 82, 88–9, 98, water bowline 116 clove hitch coil 188
Aldridge, George 166 121, 202–3, 238 Bowlings, Tom, Book of Knots 40 coils 16, 184–95
Alexander the Great 14 definition of 22 braided interlocking loops 128, alpine coil 190
Alfa Romeo 151 double fisherman’s knot 101 130–1 bell ringer’s knot 189
alpine butterfly bend 78, 82 double reeving line bend 99 braided loop 106, 128–9 butterfly coil 191
variation of 84 double sheet bend 78, 81 braided ropes 21, 249 clove hitch coil 188
alpine coil 190 double simple simon 93 braided splice 106–7, 128 figure-eight flake 192
Alston, Captain Alfred Henry 115 figure-eight bend 78, 79 Bri-Nylon 21 French coil 194
Anderson, RC, Manuscript on fisherman’s knot 25, 100, 148 broach bend 87 gasket coil 188
Rigging 56 hawser bends 98 broach loop 124 halyard coil 187
angler’s loop 119, 148 heaving line bend 94, 103 Bronze Age 78 simple coil 186–7
double angler’s loop 143 jamming bend 95 bubble knot 73 wrapped coil 190, 193
artillery loop 122 lapp knot 83 Buddhism 222 coir 20
Asher, Dr Harry open carrick bend 89 Budworth, Geoffrey, braided constrictor knot 15, 17, 38–9, 65,
Alternative Book of Knots 60 overhand bend 78, 79 interlocking loop 130 246
broach bend 87 racking bend 102 builder’s knot see clove hitch alternatives to 42
clara hitches 60, 61 reeving line bend 98–9 buntline hitch 30 double constrictor knot 40
Law of Loop, Hitch & Bight 38 rigger’s bend 84, 86 buntlines 30 tied in the bight 41
locking loop 135 sansome bend 105 butane whipping 246, 251, 274 with loop 39
simple simon 92 sheet bend 25, 78, 80, 92, 105, butterfly bend 82 cotton 20
Ashley, Clifford 113, 274 variation of 84 cow hitch 49, 122, 274
The Ashley Book of Knots 15, 64, simple simon 78, 92 butterfly coil 191 cowboys 120, 121, 169
82, 152 single stopper 94, 104 butterfly loop 82, 126 crossing knots 48
Ashley’s stopper knot 15, 152 slackline bend 94 crossing points 22
carrick bend 88 Spanish hawser bend 78, 90 C crown knot 15, 198–9, 200, 228
constrictor knot 40 surgeon’s knot 91 cable-laid rope 20 crown sinnet 228–9
doughnuts 242 triple fisherman’s knot 101 camel hitch 36 crown whipping 252
end of knot-tying 14–15 triple sheet bend 81 carrick bend 82, 88–9, 98 cutting rope 17
extra turns 52 twin bowlines 97, 98 knots based on carrick bend 202 Cutty Sark 172
good luck knot 220 zeppelin bend 25, 78, 82, 84, 86, open carrick bend 89
hangman’s knot 138 87, 148 use for doormats 238 D
leads and bights in turk’s heads bights 22, 230, 232, 233, 236 use in modern rope 78 Dacron 21
233 bill hitch 70
lineman’s loop 82 bitts 62, 66 carrick loop 121 Dana, RH
A Seaman’s Friend 37
Carrick Roads, Falmouth 88
Matthew Walker knot 210 blackwall hitch 70 cat’s paw, double 72 Two Years Before the Mast 70
overhand bend 78 double blackwall hitch 15, 70, 71 Celts 230 Dass, Petter 14
reef knot 156 Blackwall Shipyard, River Thames chafe 251 deadeyes, knots for 49
rigger’s bend 85 70 chain splices decorative knots 196–243
round turn and two half block and tackles 74 multiplait 272–3 braided loops 128
hitches 28 blocks 166
securest bends 94 blood knot 85 traditional 266–7 Chinese crown loop 219
chain stitch lashing 183
Chinese lanyard knot 216–17
timber hitch 56 Boating (magazine) 87 cheesing 194–5 crown knot 198–9, 200, 228
types of knots and who tied bollards 62 Chen, Lydia, Chinese Knotting 220 crown sinnet 228–9
them 12 cleat hitch on a bollard cleat 68
whipping rope 246 bottle slings 180 China, knot-tying in 217 diamond knot 202–3, 204, 206
Chinese crown loop 219
double diamond knot 204–5
zeppelin bend 25 Indian jug handle 169 Chinese lanyard knot 216–17 double Matthew Walker knot 212
Ashley’s stopper 15, 24, 152–3, 210 Prusik bottle sling 168 chrysanthemum knot 220 double wall knot 201
Australian bushmen 128 bowlines 24, 112–13 cinch knot 74 doughnut 242–3
bowline in the bight 15, 117 cinquefoil 155 footrope knot 203, 206–7
breaking bowlines 113, 127
B and effect on line’s strength 98 Clayoquot tribes 12 good luck knot 220–1, 222
back splice 198, 246 eskimo bowline 127 cleat hitch 25, 66–7 Japanese loop 218
baggage labels, knots for 49 fast bowline 114 cleat hitch on a bollard cleat 68 lanyard knot 214–15
bale sling hitch 49 fisherman’s bend and bowline 47 cleat hitch on a pin 69 manrope knot 200
barques, four-masted 52 for mooring lines 62 slipped cleat hitch 67 Matthew Walker knot 15, 152,
barrel knot 85 French bowline 15 cleats 62 210–11
beeswax 19 interlocked bowline 98 climbing 126, 191 Matthew Walker loop 213
belaying pins 69 running bowline 15, 132 clinging clara hitch 60 mystic knot 222–3
bell ringer’s knot 122, 189 clove hitch 25, 28, 32–3, 38, 112 ocean braid mat 238–9
seized bowline 115
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