ropes, knots, and hitches

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CONTENTS Executive Director, Outward Bound USA ABOUT OUTWARD BOUND INTRODUCTION 1 OF ROPES AND CORDAGE 2 CAMPING KNOTS: Stoppers Overhand Knot Overhand Knot with Draw Loop Heaving Line Knot Figure 8 Knot Figure 8 Knot with Draw Loop 3 CAMPING KNOTS: Bends Square (Reef) Knot Sheet Bend Double Sheet Bend 4 CAMPING KNOTS: Loops Figure 8 Loop Overhand Loop Slipknot (Simple Noose) Hangman’s Knot (Noose) 5 CAMPING KNOTS: Stationary Hitches Half Hitch Two Half Hitches Clove Hitch Clove Hitch on a Stake Clove Hitch on a Ring Cow Hitch (Simple) Cow Hitch (Pedigree) Bull Hitch Transom Knot 6 CAMPING KNOTS: Moving Hitches Trucker’s Hitch Tautline Hitch Timber Hitch Killick Hitch 7 BOATING KNOTS: Stoppers Double Overhand Knot Ashley’s Stopper Knot 8 BOATING KNOTS: Bends Carrick Bend Vice Versa Zeppelin Bend 9 BOATING KNOTS: Loops Scaffold Knot Bowline Bowline on a Bight Double Bowline Triple Bowline Midshipman’s Hitch 10 BOATING KNOTS: Hitches Anchor (Fisherman’s) Bend Buntline Hitch Highwayman’s Hitch Camel Hitch Rolling Hitch Pole Hitch Pile (Post) Hitch Constrictor Knot Double Constrictor Knot 11 CLIMBING KNOTS: Hitches Bachmann Hitch Munter (Italian) Hitch Girth Hitch Klemheist Knot Garda Knot Prusik Knot Round Turn and Two Half Hitches 12 CLIMBING KNOTS: Bends Hunter’s (Rigger’s) Bend Fisherman’s Knot Double Fisherman’s Knot Water Knot Figure 8 Bend 13 CLIMBING KNOTS: Loops Figure 8 Follow-Through Figure 8 Double Loop Figure 8 Triple Loop Loop Knot Alpine Butterfly Spanish Bowline Interlocking Loops 14 MISCELLANEOUS KNOTS Sheepshank Eye Splice Back Splice Common Whipping Asher’s Bottle Sling Knife Lanyard Knot Monkey’s Fist Simple Chain Sinnet (Monkey Chain) INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR