INDEX

Artificial Eye, 119

Back-Handed Sailor’s Knot, 97, 98

Bale Slings, 84, 85

Belaying Pin Splice, 102

Bend Hawsers, 100

Bend Shortening, 71

Bending Sheet to Clew of Sail, 123

Blackwall Hitch, 44

Boat Knot, Simple, 95

Boat Knot with Thole Pin, 96

Boltrope, 14

Bow Knot, Double, 74, 75

Bow Knot, Single, 74, 75

Bow Shortening, 71, 72

Bowline Bend, 47, 48

Bowline Knot, 25, 26

Bowline Knot, Standing, 28

Bowline on a Bight, 27

Bronze Rope, 18

Builders’ Knot, 73

Builders’ Knot, Double, 74

Buntline Hitch, 38

Burton, Spanish, Double, 82, 83

Burton, Spanish, Single, 81, 82

Butt Slings, 84

Cable-Laid Rope, 13

Can Hooks, 84, 85

Capstan Knot, 96

Carrick Bend, 48

Carrick Bend, Double, 48, 49

Catspaw, 72

Chain Fastening, 90

Chain Fastening to Sheaves, Double, 91

Chain Hitch, 49

Chain Knot, 68

Chain Knot, Double, 69, 70

Chain Splice, 115, 116

Clinch, Outside, 28

Clinch, Running or Inside, 28

Clinch, Simple, 28

Clove Hitch, 39, 73

Coir Rope, 14, 18

Crabber’s Eye Knot, 37, 38

Cringle on a Crown, 127

Cringles, 125, 126

Crossed and Square Fastening, 92

Crossed Running Knot, 30, 96

Cross Lashing, 103

Cross Netting, 150

Crowning, 56

Crown Knot, 57

Cut Splice, 116

Dead-eye Lashing, 101, 102

Diamond Knot, Double, 63, 64

Diamond Knot, Single, 62, 63

Dog Shank, 70, 71

Double Blackwall Hitch, 41, 42

Double Builders’ Knot, 74

Double Knot, 22

Double Wall Knot, 56

Durable Rope, 18

Englishman’s Knot, 33

Eye Splice, Rope, 115

Eye Splice, Wire Rope, 130

False Knot, 31, 32

Fender, Round or Pudding, 141

Fender, Soft, 142

Fibres, 12

Figure of 8 Knot, 21

Fisherman’s Bend, 46, 47

Fisherman’s Knot, 33

Five-Fold Knot, 22

Flemish Eye, 119

Flemish Knot, 76, 77

Galvanized Iron Wire, 18

Granny, 31, 32

Grommet, 118

Gunner’s Knot, 99

Half Hitch, 36

Half Hitch and Seizing Bend, 47, 48

Hammock Clew, 150

Hammock Lashings, 14

Hawser Bend, Simple, 47

Hawser Rope, 13

Hawsers, 18

Hemp Rope, 18

Junk, 14

Jury Knot, 108

Killick Hitch, 42, 43

Knot Shortening, 71, 72

Lanyards, 14

Lark Boat Knot, 94, 95

Lark’s Head, 88, 89, 96

Lark’s Head, Double, 97, 98

Lark’s Head, Stoppered, 96

Lark’s Head, Treble, 97, 98

Lark’s Head with Crossed Ends, 97

Lark’s Nest, 57

Lengthening the Rope of a Sail, 122

Long Splice, Rope, 114

Long Splice, Wire, 131

Loop Fastening to Sheaves, 91, 92

Loop Knot, 23, 24

Loop Knot for Large Cordage, 24

Loop or Bend Shortening, Simple, 71

Lubber’s Knot, 32

Magnus Hitch, 43

Malay Hitch, 145

Manila Rope, 18

Marling Hitch, 42

Marlinespike, 118

Marlinespike Hitch, 43, 44

Manrope Knot, 57, 58

Matthew Walker Knot, 59, 60

Matthew Walker, Double, 60, 61

Meshing Loop, 147

Metallic Rope, 18

Midshipman’s Hitch, 42

Mousing a Hook, 100

Necklace Tie, 103

Nettle Stuff, 14

Netting Needles, 146

Nippering or Packing, 104

Oakum, 14

Open-Hand Knot, 32

Ordinary Knot or Tie, 34

Overhand Loop, 21

Packing Knot, 106, 107

Parbuckle, 84

Parcelling, 124

Pass a Life Line, To, 85

Pass a Stropper, To, 86

Paunch Mat, 134

Pitcher Knot, Single, 23

Pitcher Knot, Double, 108, 109

Point a Rope End, To, 52, 53

Portuguese Knot or Necklace Tie, 103

Pricker, 118

Purchases—

Burton, 81

Double Luff Tackle, 80, 81

Four-fold, 81

Gun Tackle, 79, 80

Handy Billy, 80

Luff Tackle, 80, 81

Runner, 79, 80

Runner and Tackle, 82

Three-fold, 80

Up and Down Tackle, 81

Watch Tackle, 80

Whip, Double, 79

Whip, Single, 79

Put a Strop on a Spar, 87

Racking Seizing, 109, 110, 111

Reef Knot, 31, 73

Roband Hitch, 39

Rolling Hitch, 40, 41

Rope, 11

Rope Yarn Knot, 35

Rose Lashing, 103

Round Fender, 143

Round Turn and Two Half Hitches, 43, 44

Running Bowline, 26

Running Knot, 75, 76, 77

Running Knot Checked, 75, 76

Running Knot Crossed, 30, 96

Running Knot in Eye of a Rope, 101

Running Knot, Simple, 96

Running Knot with Check Knot, 24

Running Noose, 29, 30

Sailors’ Knot Fastening, 94

Secure Lead Line to Lead, 100

Secure a Rope Round a Belaying Pin, 93

Secure a Rope Around a Cleat, 93

Selvagees, 120, 121

Sennit, 14

Sennit, Crown, 140

Sennit, Square, 141

Serving, 124

Shell Lashing, 103

Sheep Shank or Dog Shank, 70, 71

Sheet Bend, 46, 47

Shortening Tie, 34

Short Splice, Rope, 112

Short Splice, Wire, 129

Shroud-Laid Rope, 13

Shroud Knot, 64

Simple Boat Knot, 95

Simple Hitch, 21

Simple Knot, 21, 73, 74

Simple Running Knot, 23

Simple Stoppered Loop, 88

Single Plait or Chain Knot, 68

Six-Fold Knot, 23

Sling a Cask on End, 86

Slip Clinches or Running Knots Seized, 29

Slip Knot, Stoppered, 98

Slip Knot Secured by Slip Clinch, 99

Slippery Hitch, 39, 40

Slippery Ring Knot, 94

Snaking and Seizing, 65

Spanish Burton, 81, 82

Spanish Burton, Double, 82, 83

Spanish Windlass, 83

Spritsail Sheet Knot, 66

Spun Yarn, 14

Square Fastening, 93

Stationer’s Knot, 77, 78

Steel Rope, 18

Stopper Knot, 57, 58

Strands, 12

Stun’sail Halyard Bend, 44, 45

Sword Mat Splicing, 138

Sword Matting, 136, 137

Tail Jigger, 87

Tent Pole Knot, 75, 76

Throat Seizing, 120

Thrum Mat, 140

Timber Hitch, 36, 37

Timber Hitch for Towing Spars, 37

Toggles, 107

Tomfool Knot, 23

Topsail Halyard Bend, 45

Treble Knot, 22

Turk’s Head Knot, 58

Twine, 14

Twist Knot, Single, 69, 74

Twist Knot, Double, 74, 75

Twisted Rope Fastening, 89

Underhand Loop, 21

Useful Band, 106

Wall Knot, 54, 55

Waterman’s Knot, 89, 90

Weaver’s Knot or Tie, 32, 33

Wedding Knot or Rose Lashing, 102, 103

Weaving, Simple, 144

Whip a Rope, To, 50, 51

Whipping, American, 103

Whipping, To Finish, 105

Whipping, Palm and Needle, 51, 52

Whipping, West Country, 104

Wire Hawsers, Steel, 130

Wire Rope, 18

Wire Rope Eye Splice, 130

Wire Rope into Endless Band, To Splice, 131

Wire Rope Long Splice, 131

Wire Rope Splicing, 128

Wire Splice, Short, 129

Worming, 124

Yarn, 12