What knot?

[Salty John]

Anyone know what this knot is?
I saw it whilst strolling the docks at a marina in Texas today -(I'm on holiday in the USA).
The boat had four lines all using the same knot.

 

[Uricanejack]

My guess would be a cross between a bowline a half hitch a figure of 8 and some knot cowboys use to lasoe cows or lynch horse thiefs

 

[tcm]

ah yes, the well known No Round Turn and Three Half Hitches

 

[Deleted member 36384]

It looks as if the knot tier is using a rolling hitch to make a loop that can be snugged up against the post but not open up. The two turns are crossed like a clove hitch which would not be normal in a rolling hitch.

 

[sarabande]

guaranteed to pull tight and then be impossible to undo under strain. Mess-up.

 

[Ric]

What kind of boat was it attached too? My money is on a small stinker with big outboards and a gun rack.

 

[sarabande]

seriously, if you take off the half-hitch, you are left with a bight and clove-hitch. It doesn't make any sense at all.

 

[fisherman]

It looks as if the knot tier is using a rolling hitch to make a loop that can be snugged up against the post but not open up. The two turns are crossed like a clove hitch which would not be normal in a rolling hitch.

Have you tried to reproduce it? I can't. Is there another picture?

 

[Easticks28]

It looks like the one my son calls a 'mummy knot'

 

[lw395]

Blonde Bowline?

 

[fisherman]

Still trying. Can anyone tell me where the middle of the three turns comes from/goes to?

 

[Deleted member 36384]

Have you tried to reproduce it? I can't. Is there another picture?

No I couldn't either. The round turn of the 'clove hitch' nearest to the post is the issue as I cant see how the turn is made.

 

[fisherman]

No I couldn't either. The round turn of the 'clove hitch' nearest to the post is the issue as I cant see how the turn is made.

I think there is an optical delusion, and the standing part coming in from right goes anticlock round the post, there is an extra turn hidden under the centre of the three turns....possibly

 

[agurney]

It looks like a buntline hitch, and the tail's then taken up with a half hitch through the bight.

 

[fisherman]

It looks like a buntline hitch, and the tail's then taken up with a half hitch through the bight.

that's what it looks like at first, but have you tried to replicate it?

 

[prv]

It looks like a buntline hitch, and the tail's then taken up with a half hitch through the bight.

The half-hitches are the wrong way round for a buntline hitch - the second one (that the tail leaves from) would be nearer the pole if it were.

Pete

 

[sarabande]

agreed. As it shows, it doesn't make 'sense'.

I assume that no-one ties a hitch that tightens on itself round a post. So, that main loop must be 'locked'.

Can we send Salty J back over to take more pics ?

I've been trying for 20 mins to reproduce it without any 'hidden' bits, an can't do it.

 

[prv]

I assume that no-one ties a hitch that tightens on itself round a post. So, that main loop must be 'locked'.

I wouldn't make that assumption at all. Plenty of people who don't know what they're doing would make a hitch that locks on itself

Pete

 

[fisherman]

agreed. As it shows, it doesn't make 'sense'.

I assume that no-one ties a hitch that tightens on itself round a post. So, that main loop must be 'locked'.

Can we send Salty J back over to take more pics ?

I've been trying for 20 mins to reproduce it without any 'hidden' bits, an can't do it.

Is there not just the glimp of another turn bottom right of the centre turn? This is peeing me off now.

 

[onesea]

Is there not just the glimp of another turn bottom right of the centre turn? This is peeing me off now.

Me thinks OP has a duty to goo back and take more photos. There is a loop there that appears to go to and come from know where, there might be some hidden bits we cannot see...

or admit he is a fast learner on photo shop...