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06-14-2018, 05:34 PM
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Guru
City: Jacksonville
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Knots - Which Do You Use?
What are your five most used knots, in order?
Mine are:
Bowline
Turn and two half hitches
Reef
Figure of eight
Granny.
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06-14-2018, 05:41 PM
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Guru
City: Cary, NC
Vessel Name: Skinny Dippin'
Vessel Model: Navigator 4200 Classic
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Cleat Hitch
Clove Hitch
Bowline
Figure Eight
Running Clove
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2000 Navigator 4200 Classic
(NOT a trawler)
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06-14-2018, 06:03 PM
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Senior Member
City: Comox
Vessel Model: 1989 Wellington 57 motorsailer
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 281
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Roll and two half hitches, clove hitch, bowline, (double) sheet bend and shoelace bow. The last one is the one I have most trouble un-tying sometimes.
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06-14-2018, 06:41 PM
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Guru
City: Jacksonville
Vessel Name: SONAS
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Not to start an argument or anything (yeah right!) but...
Is a cleat hitch a knot?
And you guys don't have shoe laces?
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06-14-2018, 06:47 PM
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Senior Member
City: NW Washington State
Vessel Name: Kingfisher
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Yeah, not all "knots," but we're all friends here....
Cleat hitch, bowline, round turn and two half hitches, clove hitch, figure eight.
If transiting the large locks in Ballard, the sheet bend is essential to attach the lock tender's messenger line to your lock line. Unless you're a lubber.
Which they do see from time to time!
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06-14-2018, 06:49 PM
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Guru
City: Vermont
Join Date: Jan 2013
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7, 8, and 9
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06-14-2018, 06:53 PM
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Senior Member
City: NW Washington State
Vessel Name: Kingfisher
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Quote:
Originally Posted by twistedtree
7, 8, and 9
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I see what you did there.
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Anson & Donna
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. ~The Dalai Lama
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06-14-2018, 06:54 PM
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Guru
City: Jacksonville
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sabre602
If transiting the large locks in Ballard, the sheet bend is essential to attach the lock tender's messenger line to your lock line. Unless you're a lubber.
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Do they balk at two bowlines, boat side at the ready?
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06-14-2018, 07:00 PM
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Guru
City: Tacoma, WA & Ashland, OR
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My Dad maintained you had to learn four inots if you wanted to be on his (crappy little) boat:
Stop knot (or figure eight)
Bowline
Reef knot
Clove hitch
I dont think he thought of a cleat hitch as a knot proper, but he was very demanding about them.
"A knot has to do two things: hold securely and release easily."
I am continually amazed how many knots I see that fail condition #2.
Bill in Petersburg
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06-14-2018, 07:08 PM
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Guru
City: Jacksonville
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AlaskaProf
My Dad maintained you had to learn four knots if you wanted to be on his (crappy little) boat:
Stop knot (or figure eight)
Bowline
Reef knot
Clove hitch
I dont think he thought of a cleat hitch as a knot proper, but he was very demanding about them.
"A knot has to do two things: hold securely and release easily."
I am continually amazed how many knots I see that fail condition #2.
Bill in Petersburg
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If his priority was the figure eight he was probably a sailor as that is the knot of choice for sheets going through the gib track eye.
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06-14-2018, 07:47 PM
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Guru
City: Palm Coast
Vessel Name: Southerly
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I can’t tie a knot to save my life. I hired out.
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06-14-2018, 07:50 PM
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Guru
City: North Carolina for now
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 6,348
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Bowline. Rolling Hitch (and variation constrictors), Round turn + 2, Clove hitches, Figure 8, Square. And yes, the shoelace knot.
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"There's the Right Way, the Wrong Way, and what some guy says he's gotten away with"
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06-14-2018, 07:54 PM
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Guru
City: Tacoma, WA & Ashland, OR
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Donna
I can’t tie a knot to save my life. I hired out.
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You only wear pumps, no runners, no sneakers?
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06-14-2018, 07:55 PM
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Guru
City: Tacoma, WA & Ashland, OR
Vessel Name: boatless, ex: Seeadler
Vessel Model: RAWSON 41
Join Date: Jun 2016
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Quote:
Originally Posted by menzies
And you guys don't have shoe laces?
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A slipped reef knot, on nearly every list
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06-14-2018, 07:57 PM
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Guru
City: Gig Harbor
Vessel Name: Kinship
Vessel Model: North Pacific 43
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Posts: 9,046
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Bowline, rolling hitch, slip knot, constrictor knot, round turn and 2 half hitches.
Different knots were used when I was sailing.
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06-14-2018, 08:06 PM
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Guru
City: Seattle
Vessel Name: AZZURRA
Vessel Model: Ocean Alexander 54
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 4,281
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Bowline is very universal.
Sheet shank (Sheet bend) for the locks
Clover hitch for fenders
Square knot for the Bergie cover
Taut-line hitch for Canadian Bull rails
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06-14-2018, 08:29 PM
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Guru
City: Thibodaux, Louisiana
Vessel Name: Gumbo
Vessel Model: 2003 Monk 36
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,882
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Bowline, Rolling hitch, and Square knots, for boating and when fishing, Surgeons's loop, Bloodline, and improved Clinch knots.
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06-14-2018, 08:41 PM
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Guru
City: Cape May, NJ
Vessel Name: Irish Lady
Vessel Model: Monk 36
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 4,947
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Cleat hitch
Clove hitch
Bowline
Improved clinch
Perfection loop
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Irish Lady
1984 Monk 36 Hull #46
Currently in Cape May, NJ
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06-14-2018, 09:58 PM
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Guru
City: Stuart FL
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Hangman's noose for potential mutiny.
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Howard
Lucky Lucky
Stuart, FL
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06-14-2018, 10:12 PM
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Master and Commander
City: Vallejo CA
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Posts: 12,559
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Double slip knot is tops. Used routinely to tie shoes which I do several times a day. Consider mastery the second most memorable accomplishment as a child.
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