Pocket Guide to Knots

Name: Pocket Guide to Knots
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ISBN: 9780071490634

ISBN-10: 0071490639

ISBN-13: 9780071490634

Edition: 2007

Authors: Lindsey Philpott

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Tie knots like a pro Step-by-step photographed instructions for more than 100 knots--617 crisp, clear full-color photos in all--make this the best value among comprehensive knot books and the ideal reference for boaters, anglers, and outdoorspeople of all types.

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date: 5/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Lindsey Philpott has been tying knots since the age of 6. His father taught him how to fish without a rod, line or hook, simply by 'tickling' trout in Devon streams.



Ropes - Tools and Terms


Introduction


How to Use this Book


Origins, History and Uses


Types of Rope, Cordage and Tape


How Ropes are Made


Caring for Rope and Cordage


Coiling, Carrying, Storage


Tools and Accessories


Basic Tying Techniques


Stopper Knots


Overhand Knot


Double Diamond Knot


Figure-of-Eight Knot


Heaving Line Knot


Wall Knot


Crown Knot


Double Matthew Walker Knot


Manrope Knot


Stopper Knot


Stevedore Knot


Loops


Alpine Butterfly Loop


Angler's Loop


Blood Loop Dropper Knot


Jury Mast Knot


Bowline Loop


Double Bowline


Bowline in the Bight


Portuguese Bowline


Spanish Bowline


Water Bowline


Midshipman's Hitch


Overhand Loop


Overhand Sliding Loop


Figure-of-Eight Loop in the Bight


Figure-of-Eight Loop with Three Adjustable Loops


Threaded Figure-of-Eight Loop


Double Figure-of-Eight Loop


Hitches


Anchor Bend


Bachmann Knot


Clove Hitch


Boom Hitch


Rigger's Hitch


Rolling Hitch


Buntline Hitch


Cow Hitch


Pedigree Cow Hitch


Figure-of-Eight Hitch


French Prusik


Extended French Prusik


Gaff Topsail Halyard Bend


Heddon Knot


Highwayman's Hitch


Klemheist Knot


Lighterman's Hitch


Mooring Hitch


Munter Friction Hitch


Marlinespike Hitch


Munter Mule


Ossel Hitch


Palomar Knot


Pile Hitch/Double Pile Hitch


Trucker's Hitch


Round Turn and Two Half Hitches


Timber and Killick Hitch


Bends


Hunter's Bend


Ashley's Bend


Sheet Bend


Double Sheet Bend


Tucked Sheet Bend


Fisherman's Knot


Double Fisherman's Knot


Triple Fisherman's Knot


Double Carrick Bend - Ends Adjacent


Double Carrick Bend - Ends Opposed


Albright Special


Blood Knot


Double Harness Bend


Double Overhand Bend


Flemish Bend


Figure-of-Eight Bend - Parallel Ends


Double Figure-of-Eight Bend


Heaving Line Bend


Shake Hands Bend


Strop Bend


Simple Simon Double


Zeppelin Bend


Special Knots


Good Luck Knot


Sailor's Knife Lanyard Knot


Prusik Knot


Mariner's Knot with a Prusik


Sheepshank


Man o' War Sheepshank


Bindings


Constrictor Knot


Strangle Knot


Boa Knot


Bottle Sling Knot


Double Figure-of-Eight Hitch


Pole Lashing


Miller's Knot


Sheer Lashing


Square Lashing


Diagonal Lashing


Reef Knot


Thief Knot


Transom Knot


Braids


Chain Sennit


Four- or Eight-Strand Plait


Three- or Six-Strand Plait


Turk's Head Mat


Splices


Back Splice


Eye Splice


Short Splice


Common Whipping


Sailmaker's Whipping


Palm and Needle Whipping


Seizings


Glossary


Bibliography


Index


Photographic Credits