Index

A

Alpine Butterfly –115

Alpine Coil –39

Anchor Bend –148

Angler’s Loop , –99

Ashley’s Bend

B

bends , –137

bights

binding knots , –85

bitter ends

Blood Knot –137

boats

Bowline

Bowline on a Bight –111

Bowline with Stopper

Bowline with Two Turns

Buntline Hitch

Butterfly Coil –45

buying rope –26

C

cables

care of rope –36

Carrick Bend

chafe, preventing

characteristics of knots

Cleat Hitch –175

clockwise direction

Clove Hitch

Clove Hitch on a Bight

coiling for storage –45

coils

coir rope

Common Whipping –182

Constrictor Knot

construction of rope

cotton rope

counterclockwise direction

Cow Hitch –155

Cow Hitch with a Toggle

crossing turns ,

cutting rope

D

Diagonal Lashing –165

Directional Figure 8 Loop

Double Figure 8 Bend

Double Fisherman’s Knot –135

Double Overhand Knot –52

Double Overhand Loop

Double Overhand Sliding Loop –97

Double Sheet Bend

Dutch Bowline

E

elbows

Eskimo Bowline –109

estimating length

F

fibers

Figure 8 Knot –61

Figure 8 Loop

finishing knots

Fireman’s Coil

Fisherman’s Knot

Fisherman’s Loop

Flat Seizing –186

Flemish Bend –125

foundation knots , –57

fraying, preventing –36

French Whipping –184

G

glossary –188

Granny Knot

guidelines for tying

H

Half Hitch

Half Knot

Heaving Line Knot –70

hemp rope

high-tech fibers

Highwayman’s Hitch

hitches , –159

hawsers

Hunter’s Bend –131

I

Italian Hitch

J

jute rope

K

Klemheist Knot

knot types –22

L

lashings , –169

length, estimating

lines

loop knots , –115

loops ,

M

manila rope

Marlinespike Hitch

materials –32

Miller’s Knot

Monkey’s Fist –73

Mooring Hitch

N

natural fiber rope , –30

nylon rope

O

One-handed Bowline –103

Overhand Knot

Overhand Loop

overhands

P

Packer’s Knot –85

Pedigree Cow Hitch

Pole Lashing –169

polyester rope

polyethylene rope

polypropylene rope

Portuguese Bowline

Prusik Knot

R

resources

Rolling Hitch

roof racks

rope , –27, –36

Round Turn and Two Half Hitches –143

round turns

running ends

S

safety –15

seizing , , , –186

Sheepshank –173

Sheer Lashing –167

Sheet Bend

Single Hitch

Sink Stopper Knot –66

sisal rope

Slip Knot Trucker’s Hitch –171

Slipped Figure 8 Knot

Slipped Half Hitch

Slipped Overhand Knot –50

Slipped Square Knot

Spanish Bowline –113

special-purpose knots –178

splices

Square Knot ,

Square Lashing –163

standing ends

standing parts

Stevedore Knot –68

Stopper Knot –64

stopper knots , –73

storage –45

strands

Strangle Knot

Surgeon’s Knot

Surgeon’s Knot with Second Tuck

synthetic fiber rope , –32

T

Taut Line Hitch –145

terminology –19

testing knots

Thief Knot

Threaded Figure 8 Loop –93

Three-way Sheet Bend

Timber Hitch

true knots

Tucked Sheet Bend

turns

tying guidelines

types –22

U

uncoiling rope

underhands

untying knots

W

washing rope

Water Bowline

Water Knot

websites

whipping , –184

working ends

working loads ,

working parts

Wrapped and Reef-knotted Coil –42

Y

yarns

Z

Zeppelin Bend –129