What Knot?

[Lakesailor]

Just as the title, what is this knot?

 

[NormanS]

A very poor one. It looks like a single half hitch, with the free end taken through the eye, and then served to the standing part.

 

[prv]

I don't think it's a real knot, just a few turns which were easy for the sculptor to do and look like a knot at first glance.

Possibly a racking seizing below it, and a common whipping on the end.

Pete

 

[cliffdale]

It looks like half an anchor knot, steps one and two?

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&r...-tr3N2g0Qac6i88fh-gnMrfw&ust=1411920087545716

 

[Davy_S]

Is it a Whitehaven marina knot?

 

[Lakesailor]

It is. There is a row of them (cue feverish Googling)

 

[pvb]

It is. There is a row of them (cue feverish Googling)

I have been feverishly Googling! Didn't find what it was, but found a pic of another one.

 

[Searush]

I have been feverishly Googling! Didn't find what it was, but found a pic of another one.

That looks like a sheet bend, the other looks like a bike stand.

 

[James_Calvert]

Just as the title, what is this knot?

Midshipman's hitch - except the finishing half-hitch is seized instead of tied - which would be a bit of a mockery of the idea of the knot - one you tie round yourself when overboard and thrown a rope.

http://www.marinerkayaks.com/Mkgif/Knots.GIF

 

[sarabande]

the thinner bits of line below the 'knot' the base are a racking seizing.

 

[Daydream believer]

Fisherman's bend

 

[nigelmercier]

As has been suggested, it is not a knot

 

[Lakesailor]

Midshipman's hitch

Correct. Don't argue with me, the name is cast into the base. There are other knots there as well. I should have been more asiduous and photographed them all.