50 Knots You Need to Know: Learn 50 knots for sailing, climbing, camping, and more 9781911026310, 9781909313569

Essential rope-and-string tying advice for the nerdily inclined. Includes two lengths of rope to help you practice tying

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50 Knots You Need to Know: Learn 50 knots for sailing, climbing, camping, and more
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Learn 50 knots for sailing, climbing, camping, and more

Table of contents :
Introduction:

Knot for the Faint of Heart

Knot Talk

Section 1

Tips for the First-time Knot Tier (Knot Basics)

Basic Overhand (or Thumb Knot) and Double Overhand

Half Hitch

Figure 8 Stopper Knot

Half Knot

Square Knot (Reef Knot)

Rope Coiling

Whipping the Rope

Section 2

A Sailor’s Knots of the Sea (Nautical Knots)

Sheet Bend

Double Sheet Bend

Slip Knot and Noose

Cleat Hitch

Marlinspike Hitch (Hoop)

Albright Knot

Anchor Hitch (or Bend)

Double Fisherman’s Knot

Ashley’s Stopper Knot

Section 3

The Outdoor Adventurer’s Guide to Life in the Forest (Camping Knots)

Bowline (Bowlan)

Clove Hitch

Monkey’s Fist

Carrick Bend

Poacher’s Knot

Constrictor Knot

Rolling Hitch

Tautline Hitch

Timber Hitch

Square Lashing

Tripod Lashing

Celtic Knot

Section 4

A Handy Guide to Climbing In and Out of All the Things (Climbing Knots)

Bow Tie

Lark’s Head (or Cow Hitch, Lanyard Hitch)

Munter Mule and Hitch

Alpine Butterfly Loop

Double Alpine Butterfly Loop

Prusik Knot

Better Bow

Blood Knot

Sheep Shank

The Knut

Scaffold Knot

Section 5

The Knot Tier’s Guide to Escape (Miscellaneous Strong Knots and Tying Diversions)

Mooring Hitch

Highwayman’s Hitch

Running Bowline

Package Knot

Barrel Hitch

Trucker’s Hitch

Honda Knot (or Lasso)

Handcuff Knot

Tumble Hitch

Make a Net

Monkey Braid

Index

Acknowledgments

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