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MULTI-STRAND STOPPER OR TERMINAL KNOTS

ing manner; or the knot may be tied in six-strand rope or sinnet,

or else with the two ends of a three-strand strap or becket.

Single wall the six strands, then arrange the ends in three pairs of

two strands each, and crown them as in the first diagram. Stick the

left member of each pair under one additional part, as indicated by

the arrow in the left diagram, and the knot will assume the appear-

ance of the right diagram. Keeping the knot fiat, follow below the

original wall with each of the six ends and stick up to the center

between two standing parts. Finally, lay up into SIX-STRAND ROUND

SINNET or else six-strand right-hand rope.

719. The Buoy ROPE KNOT is described and named by Steel in

1794. It was put into the end of a cable-laid rope to provide a shoul-

der to assist in making the buoy rope fast to the anchor. First put on

a heavy seizing, and open the cable into its three component ropes 116

as far as the seizing. Next layout one strand from each rope end.

Stop all ends, and lay up the cable again with the three two-strand

ropes that are left, having first beaten them well with a mallet. To do

this, take two of the rope ends, twist them as hard as possible, and

lay them up together. Then lay up the two with the remaining single

rope end. Stop them, and beat them again to make them lie fair.

Next, proceed to wall and double wall the three single strands

where they were originally laid out. Draw the knot taut, and worm

the three strands to the end of the cable. Finally, put on a strong

spun-yam whipping, which in width should equal the diameter of

the cable.

720. In bending the buoy rope to an anchor the rope is first made

fast to the crown of the anchor with Buoy ROPE HITCH ~ 33 23, and

then is seized next the crown. The knot is put halfway up the shank,

and the rope is seized both above and below the Buoy ROPE KNOT. il~

721. To crown a cable. Put on a stout whipping some distance

from the end, and open the cable into its nine separate strands. Take

the three innermost strands (one from each of the three component .. .I.)

ropes) and lay them up into a three-strand rope, to form a heart.

Arrange the remaining six strands into pairs, take the right member

of each pair, open it out and tease and fay it along the heart that

was just made, and serve over all.

Crown the remaining three strands to the right, and worm them

back along the cable their full length. Haul all taut and seize twice,

once at the end of the worming and once close below the crown.

722. Luce in 1862 states that in crowning a cable "sometimes an

artificial eye [~2 796] is formed with the three inner strands." By

means of this the cable is attached to a smaller rope and hauled out

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through the hawse pipe.

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