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Title: 9 knots for sailors (and everyone else)
Post by: pfrsantos on October 01, 2018, 06:23:01 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP-PLhz_uIw

:tu: :tu:

Bowline
Cleat Hitch
Clove Hitch
Buntline Hitch
Stopper Knot / Figure of 8 Knot
Strait Bend
Alpine Butterfly / Center Loop
Rolling Hitch / Sliding Knot
Admiralty Stopper
Title: Re: 9 knots for sailors (and everyone else)
Post by: Aloha on October 01, 2018, 06:25:42 PM: This guy is a great teacher. I'm a bad student :dunno:. I've really got to practice. Why can't I absorb the truckers hitch?
Title: Re: 9 knots for sailors (and everyone else)
Post by: pfrsantos on October 01, 2018, 06:34:11 PM: Quote from: Aloha007 on October 01, 2018, 06:25:42 PM
This guy is a great teacher. I'm a bad student :dunno:. I've really got to practice. Why can't I absorb the truckers hitch?

Well, if it's any consolation, I'm even worse.

:facepalm:

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I can only remember the seven year hitch...

:whistle:
Title: Re: 9 knots for sailors (and everyone else)
Post by: styx on October 01, 2018, 08:44:25 PM: so you're telling me I should get rope and start practising at work?
Title: Re: 9 knots for sailors (and everyone else)
Post by: AimlessWanderer on October 01, 2018, 08:54:39 PM: Good video. I only use three of those.

Bowline: good simple knot, but not to be trusted for anything critical in my experience.

Clove Hitch: excellent knot which everyone should know - both ways - with a free working end, and in the bight. One of my most used knots.

Figure of Eight. A fantastic knot which is a good foundation for a variety of different knots. Can be used as a stopper as shown, or for bends (both of similar and dissimilar ropes), fixed loops or sliding loops.
Title: Re: 9 knots for sailors (and everyone else)
Post by: LoopCutter on October 01, 2018, 09:37:19 PM: Replied just so I can find it easier.

Having an arsenal of knots is always good for something, sometime, even to just impress :whistle:
Title: Re: 9 knots for sailors (and everyone else)
Post by: Don Pablo on October 01, 2018, 10:17:47 PM: Quote from: LoopCutter on October 01, 2018, 09:37:19 PM
Replied just so I can find it easier.

Having an arsenal of knots is always good for something, sometime, even to just impress :whistle:
:iagree:
Even though the only knots I really know are the clove hitch and the reef/square knot. :facepalm:
Title: Re: 9 knots for sailors (and everyone else)
Post by: Borg on October 01, 2018, 11:01:44 PM: I used to have problems with the truckers hitch too, until i found this tutorial..now i can hitch with the best of them :tu:
https://youtu.be/TUHgGK-tImY
Title: Re: 9 knots for sailors (and everyone else)
Post by: styx on October 02, 2018, 10:28:06 AM: thanks for that
Title: Re: 9 knots for sailors (and everyone else)
Post by: pfrsantos on October 02, 2018, 04:03:33 PM: Quote from: styx on October 01, 2018, 08:44:25 PM
so you're telling me I should get rope and start practising at work?

I have a couple of feet of paracord right here. I use it to practice some of these from time to time.

:pok: :pok:
Title: Re: 9 knots for sailors (and everyone else)
Post by: pfrsantos on October 02, 2018, 04:12:34 PM: Here's another way to tie the Trucker's Hitch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJJPySetSRw
Title: Re: 9 knots for sailors (and everyone else)
Post by: pfrsantos on October 02, 2018, 04:28:02 PM: A little improvement on this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUerD-QvFnc