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THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS
865. A FIVE-STRAND MAN ROPE KNOT with a double crown and a
single wall. This crown is doubled in a way that has not been shown
before in this chapter. After a WALL AND CROWN has been tied, each
strand is tucked through the next bight of the crown to the right,
as shown in the left diagram. The ends are then tucked down to
the stem through the initial wall as shown in the second diagram.
When completed as directed, the knot can be doubled in the ordinary
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way.
866. A LANYARD KNOT, crowned, makes a handsome ROSE KNOT.
After crowning, the strands are tucked to the stem in the usual way.
867. A FOUR-STRAND SINGLE MATTHEW WALKER may have a
crown of the sort described and illustrated in jljf86S and, so tied, is
a very effective knot.
868. A FOUR-STRAND DOUBLE or FULL MATTHEW WALKER may
be crowned in the same way as jljf86S, or the .crown may be tucked
one additional part, which will make a fuller center.
869. A DOUBLE FOOTROPE KNOT (jljf697), with the lead followed
666 above, may be crowned in one of the "\vays that have been described
to make a bulkier knot than has yet been shown. The crown should
be doubled, and the ends led to the stem, before the FOOTROPE KNOT
is finally drawn snug. Having worked the FOOTROPE KNOT, each end
of the crown is in turn tightened a little until the top of the knot
has sunk to the desired level. The ends may then be trimmed.
The Naval Repository of 1762 described a manrope of the period
in the following terms: "The entering Rope is suspended from the
Top of the Ladder by which you enter the Ship; and for the most
Part [is] covered with Scarlet Cloth curiously fringed and tasseled."
It would seem that the rope described must have had an eye for
lashing purposes, instead of a knob, since a tassel could scarcely be
rove through the small hole of a stanchion. Later descriptions of the
entering rope describe a knot, however.
MANROPE KNOTS are often mistakenly called TURK'S-HEADS. This
is probably because certain sciolists have made the error in their
magazine articles, which have had a wide circulation. There is no
excuse for the mistake, as one is a solid MULTI-STRAND KNOT in the
end of a rope, and the other is a SINGLE-STRAND CYLINDRICAL BIND-
ING KNOT around the bight of a rope. All they have in common is
865 a basket-weave surface.
In tying MULTI-STRAND KNOTS, do not allow yourself to become
confused. Tie methodically, one move after another. Do not be-
come impatient, for there is a lot to be learned. Not more than six
ordinary seamen out of a hundred could tie even a MANROPE KNOT,
and the MANROPE KNOT is about the easiest knot of the present
chapter.
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