Knot tying consists of the techniques and skills employed in tying a knot in rope, nylon webbing, or other articles; as said by wikipedia. It requires skills of a seaman or commonly called seamanship, defined as the skills of a seaman onboard the ship. At school they usually teach us a lot of knot tying techniques. But we only use less than half of it. Learning the basics of knot tying complicates a lot of people. But once you get the hang out of it, you will find it less difficult to do.

The common knot tying used onboard

• Bowline - is an ancient but simple knot used to form a fixed loop at the end of a rope. The structure of the bowline is identical to that of the sheet bend, except the bowline forms a loop in one rope and the sheet bend joins two ropes.

• Clove Hitch - is a type of knot. It consists of two identical half hitches made successively around an object. It is most effective used as a crossing knot. Although it can be used as a binding knot, it is not particularly secure in that role.[1] A clove hitch made around the standing part of the line is known as either Two half-hitches or Buntline hitch, depending on whether half-hitches progress away or towards the hitched object.

• Timber Hitch - is a knot used to attach a single length of rope to a piece of wood. This knot is easily undone after use.

• Sheepshank - is a type of knot (or, more accurately unknot) that is used to shorten a rope or take up slack.

• Square Knot - the reef knot or square knot is a common and simple binding knot.

• Figure of eight knot - is a type of knot. It is very important in both sailing and rock climbing as a method of stopping ropes from running out of retaining devices.

How to do it?

I’ll just provide you the link to “You Tube” on video tutorials on how to make the knot tying of the following:

• Bowline
• Clove Hitch
• Timber Hitch
• Sheepshank
• Square knot

• Figure of eight

Conclusion

Now that you know this important knot tying techniques, I would recommend that you practice them and learn it by heart. I’ll provide you also with this pdf file on “knot tying manual” or you can visit “Animated Knots” as your additional source of information . If you like to say something about this post, you can write your comment and say it. You can subscribe to my RSS for instant updates on this article.

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