Basic Knots and Splices

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Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. If you know nothin' about knots and don't want to become a knot nut, then this is the book for you.

Covers a good basic set of knots. The illustrations are quite clear. The book is also inexpensive and small enough to be easily packable. One person found this helpful.

I wasn't a Boy Scout growing up, nor did I do anything that required more than basic "tie your shoe" knowledge. But I've always been impressed when I watch sailors quickly and intuitively tie intricate knots that have specific uses. The answer is, yes I can! Eye splice; Short splice; Eye in braid-on-braid rope; Eye in braid-onstrand rope; Common whipping; Sailmaker's whipping; Eat sealing the end of a synthetic rope This is a really small book 64 pages , but the illustrations are clear and easy to follow.

For single rope knots, the illustrations are big enough to follow the trail of the rope through each step.

And on two-rope knots, the authors use different colored rope drawings to make it very easy to see what parts belong to which ropes. There are also small side notes that let the reader know which knots are easy or hard to undo, as well as which knots might fail under certain conditions. Using that information, you should be equipped with everything you need to decide whether or not a bowline would be a better choice than a rolling hitch for your particular needs.

An excellent little book, perfectly designed to address the topic Good reference without a lot of text or complexity. Illustrations cover the work quite well.

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A good, alternate reference that's affordable, too. A good book for any nautical library, or the outdoor enthusiast.

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Using this brief handbook, children, youth and adults can learn how to tie 78 "knots. Sections differ in their scope so that "Bends" contains 11 knots while "Turk's Head" is limited to that single, largely decorative knot. Because knots played such an important role in the days of wind powered oceangoing vessels, many of the book's knots were originally developed in response to the needs of sail, and these remain quite useful today to those involved in recreational boating; however, a lot of the book's contents have land-based applications as well.

How-to-tie illustrations in the form of full-colour photographs, accompanied by step-by-step text, lead the reader through achieving each knot. The brief text also indicates a knot's uses, and, where appropriate, any safety concerns. For example, the text of the "Overhand Loop" contains the following advice: The Overhand Loop is very unlikely to shake loose and become untied, but the Bowline, which is structurally a better knot, can, particularly when formed in rope made of slippery material. When there is danger of it doing so, the end of a Bowline should always be stopped to the standing part or secured with an Overhand Knot or Half Hitch.

When a knot involves more than one rope, the two ropes are of different colours with the contrasting colours making it easier to follow how the knot is being formed. Perhaps it's just my older eyes, but I did find the photographs relating to "Whipping" and especially "Splicing" somewhat too small to be able to easily follow the steps being illustrated. For example, I've used the Sheet Bend on countless occasions to join two ropes of unequal thickness, but I never knew that if I ended up with the ends of the two ropes I had joined being on opposite sides, then what I had really tied was a Left-Handed Sheet Bend, and I needed to be concerned because this knot could "slip," a dangerous happening in certain circumstances.

The book's portability is a great advantage, especially in those initial instances when one is called upon to apply a not-completely-learned new knot in the field.