Knot-tying diagrams

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I'm giving a talk on knots at the day centre in a couple of weeks. I want to hand out printed diagrams so they can take them home. Can anyone suggest a good site with step-by-step diagrams? There are some excellent animated sites but I haven't been able to find one with a good range of step-by-step pictures.

These are the knots I am covering

Reef knot
Sheet bend
Bowline
RT+2HH
Fig of 8
Waggoner's hitch
Gasket hitch
Highwayman's hitch
Eye splice
West country whipping

I'll also be doing these but only as demos-
Turk's head
Monkey's fist
Hangman's knot
Flying bowline
Thief knot
Sailmaker's whipping
 
What about a clove hitch ?

I've never come across a waggoners hitch, a gasket hitch or a highwaymans hitch.

If you search Google images for each of your knots you may find some suitable images.

A length of rope and a camera might be the way forward.
 
snowleopard said:
No, nor clove hitch, bowline on a bight, sheepshank etc. Most of these people will never handle a rope on a vessel so it's just things that can be used in everyday life and a few for entertainment's sake.
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In that case a clove hitch is surely more useful to know than an eyesplice?

You can tie a clove hitch in anything, but an eye splice varies from one construction to another, so is unlikely whatever type you show them will ever be useful, (or remembered)
 
snowleopard said:
I'm giving a talk on knots at the day centre in a couple of weeks. I want to hand out printed diagrams so they can take them home. Can anyone suggest a good site with step-by-step diagrams? There are some excellent animated sites but I haven't been able to find one with a good range of step-by-step pictures.

These are the knots I am covering [10 of them]

I'll also be doing these but only as demos-

[6 more]
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I don't know how long your talk is scheduled for, but (from experience with Competent Crew courses) 16 knots in half a day is being very optimistic. I would not expect to teach the eight CC knots in one evening.
 
snowleopard said:
No, nor clove hitch, bowline on a bight, sheepshank etc. Most of these people will never handle a rope on a vessel so it's just things that can be used in everyday life and a few for entertainment's sake.
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But I use a rolling hitch all the time! Passing a line round a fixed object and then rolling-hitched back onto itself is a great way of being able to adjust the length or tension, whether it's a washing line, an awning guy, or a random bit of whammy holding your folding table up while you measure up for the catch that will hold it permanently (guess what I was doing this afternoon).

I'd definitely put it above some of the others you're planning to do.

Pete
 
VicS said:
What about a clove hitch ?

I've never come across a waggoners hitch, a gasket hitch or a highwaymans hitch.
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In the spirit of keeping the basic knots nice and simple, I opted to restrict the options for tying a rope onto a bar to just one - the RT+2HH.

You will probably know the gasket hitch as the standard RYA method of securing a rope coil.

A Waggoner's hitch is the one used by truckers to tie down a load, one of the most useful ones I know.

The Highwayman's hitch is a bit of fun - tie the horse's rein to a bar so when you pull on the loose end it comes free.

p.s. the diagrams need to be in black & white for photocopying.
 
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snowleopard said:
In the spirit of keeping the basic knots nice and simple, I opted to restrict the options for tying a rope onto a bar to just one - the RT+2HH.

You will probably know the gasket hitch as the standard RYA method of securing a rope coil.

A Waggoner's hitch is the one used by truckers to tie down a load, one of the most useful ones I know.

The Highwayman's hitch is a bit of fun - tie the horse's rein to a bar so when you pull on the loose end it comes free.

p.s. the diagrams need to be in black & white for photocopying.
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Gasket hitch I use but did not know its name ...... the person I sailed with hated it ... Practical boat owner's wanker knot was what he called it every time he got a rope I'd coiled into a tangle!

Trucker knot and highwaymans knot I can manage without
 
VicS said:
Gasket hitch I use but did not know its name ...... the person I sailed with hated it ... Practical boat owner's wanker knot was what he called it every time he got a rope I'd coiled into a tangle!

Trucker knot and highwaymans knot I can manage without
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What was his preferred non-mastubatory method of seizing his coil then?
 
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