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Title |
The knot tying bible : climbing, camping, sailing, fishing, everyday / Colin Jarman. |
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Publication Info. |
Richmond Hill, Ontario : Firefly Books, [2013] |
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Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction
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623.88 Jar |
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Available |
Description |
224 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
Choosing Ropes and Lines -- Rope Construction -- Coiling and Storing -- Self-stopped Coil -- Buntline or Gasket Coil -- General Purpose Knots -- Overhand Knot -- Double Overhand Knot -- Clove Hitch -- Cow Hitch -- Double Slipped Reef Knot -- Cat's-Paw Hitch -- Constrictor Knot -- Swing Hitch -- Halter Hitch -- Slip Knot -- Hangman's Knot -- Running Bowline -- Sliding Figure-Eight Knot -- Carrick Bend -- Hunter's Bend -- Figure-Eight Bend -- True Lover's Knot -- Sailing Knots -- Rolling Hitch -- Heaving Line Bend -- Figure-Eight Knot -- Reef Knot (Square Knot) -- Slipped Reef Knot -- Thief Knot -- Round Turn and Two Half Hitches -- Halyard Hitch -- Buntline Hitch -- Anchor Bend -- Bowline -- Bowline Bend -- Bowline on a Bight -- Spanish Bowline -- Sheet Bend -- Double Sheet Bend -- Chain Sennit -- Stevedore Knot -- Monkey's Fist -- Shear Lashing -- Turk's Head -- Fishing Knots -- Tucked Half Blood Knot -- Surgeon's Knot -- Barrel Knot -- Turle Knot -- Englishman's Loop -- Blood Loop Dropper Knot -- Angler's Loop -- Water Knot -- Fisherman's Knot -- Double Fisherman's Knot -- Double Uni Knot -- Climbing Knots -- Prusik Knot -- Klemheist Knot -- Munter Hitch -- Figure-Eight Loop -- Man-Harness Knot -- Heaving Line Knot -- Camping Knots -- Taut-Line Hitch -- Stopper Knot -- Sheepshank -- Square Lashing -- Agricultural Knots -- Highwayman's Hitch -- Timber Hitch -- Trucker's Hitch -- Slipped Overhand Knot -- Honda Knot -- Neck Halter -- Transom Knot. |
Summary |
A guide to tying more than 70 of the most useful and dependable knots. |
Subject |
Knots and splices.
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Noeuds et épissures.
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Knots and splices. (OCoLC)fst00988173
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ISBN |
9781770852099 |
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1770852093 |
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