What kind of Knots do you use?

[Felipe]

Well, simples question here!
What knot do you prefer?

[Kirbstone]

Knot for what, Filipe? I don't have enough hair to knot, my neck-ties are simple non-Windsor, I don't wear clerical/monastic garb, so no knots at the waist and my shoelaces tend to use the ubiquitous double bow, but I sail a bit and there's where some knots come into use.

Tying stuff down on a trailer or roof rack uses the half hitch, tying up a boat to a mooring will use the O-X-O round cleats or the bowline. Our rowing eight can manage 13 knots for a short stretch when we have our dander up in a race...... Where do we stop?

Savannah's spliced mooring rope.jpg

Tom

[r.m.anderson]

Again; knot enough input - enough said !

[Taj]

Nail knot for tying flies to tippit.
Bowline for securing painter to bow.
Trucker's hitch for securing loads.
Square knot for general tying.
Buckaroo scarf knot for bandana around neck.
Clove hitch for hitching.
Knott's Berry Farm for pancakes.
"Knot-knot.", "Who's there?"

[Jack Williams]

The Reef knot is all you'll ever need.

[Big and Bashful]

Bowline, round turn and two half hitches or occasionaly rhe lightermans hitch.

Sometimes, if in doubt or when I forget how a bowline works, the fankle!

[Tor]

The taut-line hitch is one I particularly like. The canonical use is the clothesline, but it seems to work well for a variety of tasks. I also make use of the harness bend for clamp ribbons, and a few others.

[rick401r]

The taut-line hitch is one I particularly like. The canonical use is the clothesline, but it seems to work well for a variety of tasks. I also make use of the harness bend for clamp ribbons, and a few others.

This is the most-used knot for me. Originally learned to tie it as a boy scout when pitching a tent.

[couyalair]

I,d love to know:
How many of you could picture the content of the above messages. "Reef knot" was my limit. I have no idea what the other names for knots referred to.
As for translating the texts into any other European language, I have to admit to being quite incapable (in spite of claims made in another thread!), far too specialized.
I wonder too whether Taj,s list of knots meant anything to the Brits and Irish, or vice versa.

Martin

[RichardA]

Ahoy guys, what knots do you use ????? .........are you on the right forum??????

[Tor]

Ahoy guys, what knots do you use ????? .........are you on the right forum??????

Not on the right forum, at least with a group of sailors with a dearth of garment fasteners that involve long thin lengths of material about here... but my search claims you are the first to use ahoy in this thread

How many of you could picture the content of the above messages.
...snip...
I wonder too whether Taj,s list of knots meant anything to the Brits and Irish, or vice versa.

Well, I know what most of the knots are, and have tied those a few times, at least. I'll be interested to hear direct comments, but I suspect that sailors tended to pass names along with the knots, giving probably a surprisingly unified naming system. There are a few knots with two (or possibly more) names - the reef, or square knot being a (dangerous[1]) example - but I don't recall reference to regional variation in naming.

[1] Commonly thought to be a strong, secure knot, but in reality is nothing of the sort. Some have postulated that this mis-perception has been responsible for more injuries and deaths than any other knot.

[dillon]

When I am trying to hold something down securely, I use a cinching loop and secure the tension with two half hitches. When fastening ropes together, I use the sheet bend.

[kingfish]

Oh, and ditto on the taut line!
Otherwise it depends on the situation...
The one I use the most:
Standard bow knot.
Besides the footwear application, I still use string to tame things like long extension cords (etc).

[Big and Bashful]

I don't think I know the taut line, at least not by that name.

[Tor]

Big and Bashful: Try this Wikipedia link. #1856 is the version I know.