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CHAPTER 6: KNOB KNOTS. MULTI-STRAND

STOPPER OR TERMINAL KNOTS

Knots aft on the port si'

Forward on the starboard;

Opposite the left eye, ,.

All around and inboard.

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THE RIGGING LANYARD KNOT

(Sailors' Work Rhyme)

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The fourth variety of KNOB KNOTS, the general purpose of which

is to prevent unreeving, is the MULTI-STRAND STOPPER KNOT, in which

a number of strands, after the knot is tied, depart from the top at the

center. The ends should be laid up together and whipped at a length

not less than the diameter of the rope. In cable stoppers this length

would not be less than four or five inches. Whippings are described

at the end of Chapter 40.

A knot of this variety is tied ordinarily in lain-laid rope of three

or four strands. When one is put in a shroud- aid rope (four strands

with the addition of a core) the knot is tied with the four strands

only and the core is led straight through the knot without complica-

tion. After the knot has been made the rope is laid up around the

core as before, and whipped, the core being cut off even with the

ends of the strands.

MULTI-STRAND STOPPER KNOTS are seldom tied with over four

strands. In sinnets, when larger knots are required, BUTTON KNOTS are

generally preferred, since they are considered handsomer. But STOP-

PER KNOTS are sometimes tied in sinnet, in which case the ends are

finished off with the same sinnet before seizing.

Many old authorities advise t ing certain MULTI-STRAND KNOTS

'against the lay," but there is ittle unanimity as to which knots '.... ....
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