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Tying the Knot: A Guide to Tying Knots for Every Occasion

·TYING THE KNOT. A Guide to Knots for Boating, Camping, and Fishing CAMPING KNOTS BOWLINE nAR DIRECTIONS USES 1. Form a small loop on end of rope. 1. Creates a loop at the end of a rope that 2. Pass the free end of the line through won't shrink, slip, or expand the loop, bring around behind the line. 2. Securing a trap 3. Bring free end down in the original 3. Mountain climbing loop while maintaining the secondary loop, which will become the bowline loop. 4. Pull end up to tighten. CLOVE HITCH DIRECTIONS USES 1. Make a loop of rope around the tree. 1. Securing a line to a tree or post quickly; 2. Make another loop and pass the free may slip if other knots are not used to end of the rope under the second loop. back it up 3. Tighten. 2. Fasten a shelter together SQUARE KNOT DIRECTIONS USES 1. Lap right over left. 1. Tying bandages 2. Tie again in reverse direction-left 2. Tying packages over right. 3. Joining sections of survival cordage 4. Tying shorter ropes together 5. Tying a bundle of firewood FISHING KNOTS BLOOD KNOT 5x 5x hold here DIRECTIONS USES 1. Overlap end of lines to be joined. Twist 1. To secure two fishing lines together one around the other 5 times. Bring end 2. Used frequently in fly fishing back between two lines. 2. Repeat with other end, wrapping in opposite direction. 3. Slowly pull lines in opposite directions. Turns will gather. Clip ends close to knot. THE IMPROVED CLINCHED KNOT DIRECTIONS USES 1. Thread line through eye of hook. Wrap 1. One of the most important fishing knots around line 5 or more times. 2. Secures hooks, lures, and swivels in line 2. Bring the end of the line through the first loop, then behind the eye, then through the large loop. 3. Pull on end to tighten the coils. Slide tight against the eye. PALOMAR KNOT DIRECTIONS USES 1. Double 6 inches of line and pass it 1. Securing a hook/swivel to fishing line through eye of the hook. 2. Fastening a fly to a leader 2. Tie a loose overhand knot with hook hanging from bottom. 3. Pass the loop over the hook. Slide loop above eye of the hook. 4. Pull on both ends to tighten down onto eye. Clip end. HIKING KNOTS A SHEET BEND DIRECTIONS USES 1. Bend the thicker/more slippery rope 1. Joining two ropes with different diameters together into a “J" shape or fish hook. 2. Pass the other rope through the fish hook from behind. 3. Wrap around the entire fish hook once. 4. Tuck the smaller line under itself. TAUT LINE HITCH DIRECTION USES 1. Wrap rope around a post or tree 1. Anchor a tent several feet from the free end. 2. Grips well when taut 2. Coil the free end twice around the standing line, working back toward the post. 3. Make one coil around the standing line on the outside of the coils just made. 4. Tighten the knot and slide it to adjust the tension. TWO HALF HITCHES T7T DIRECTIONS USES 1. Wrap around poll/tree. 1. Secures line to trees, poles, or rock 2. Wrap around the line in the same direction twice. 3. Pull tight. SAILING KNOTS FISHERMAN'S/ANCHOR KNOT Half hitch Pull tight DIRECTIONS USES 1. Wrap twice around shackle. 1. Secure rode to anchor 2. Pass end behind the standing line and 2. Secure line to post through the first turns. Pull tight. 3. Tie a half hitch around the standing line. Pull tight. 4. Seize the free end. FIGURE 8 DIRECTIONS USES 1. Pass the free end of a line over itself to 1. Stopper knot at the end of rope form a loop. 2. Necessary to tie several harder knots 2. Continue under and around the line's end. 3. Pass the free end down through the loop. CARRICK BEND (SAILOR'S KNOT) DIRECTIONS USES 1. Form a basic loop with the larger 1. Joins two ropes together (i.e. towing size rope (red rope in illustration) and hawsers and cables) lay loop on top of and across working 2. Easier to untie than a square knot end of second rope. 2. Remember sequence: over, under, over, under, over. 3. Ends come out on opposite sides of the knot. 4. Seize ends to the standing parts of the ropes. ts, though small, give the extra support you need for many of your favorite outdoor activities. Master these basic knots today! cooperandkid.com netknots.com schoolofsailing.net emergencyoutdoors.com outdoorlife.com sailingcourse.org kids.britannica.com thehikinglife.com wideopenspaces.com Irsailingcenter.com psusailing.pbworks.com wildernesscollege.com Brought to you by: FIX .com

Tying the Knot: A Guide to Tying Knots for Every Occasion

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