ropes, knots, and hitches

CONTENTS
Executive Director, Outward Bound USA
ABOUT OUTWARD BOUND
INTRODUCTION
1 OF ROPES AND CORDAGE
2 CAMPING KNOTS: Stoppers
Overhand Knot
Overhand Knot with Draw Loop
Heaving Line Knot
Figure 8 Knot
Figure 8 Knot with Draw Loop
3 CAMPING KNOTS: Bends
Square (Reef) Knot
Sheet Bend
Double Sheet Bend
4 CAMPING KNOTS: Loops
Figure 8 Loop
Overhand Loop
Slipknot (Simple Noose)
Hangman’s Knot (Noose)
5 CAMPING KNOTS: Stationary Hitches
Half Hitch
Two Half Hitches
Clove Hitch
Clove Hitch on a Stake
Clove Hitch on a Ring
Cow Hitch (Simple)
Cow Hitch (Pedigree)
Bull Hitch
Transom Knot
6 CAMPING KNOTS: Moving Hitches
Trucker’s Hitch
Tautline Hitch
Timber Hitch
Killick Hitch
7 BOATING KNOTS: Stoppers
Double Overhand Knot
Ashley’s Stopper Knot
8 BOATING KNOTS: Bends
Carrick Bend
Vice Versa
Zeppelin Bend
9 BOATING KNOTS: Loops
Scaffold Knot
Bowline
Bowline on a Bight
Double Bowline
Triple Bowline
Midshipman’s Hitch
10 BOATING KNOTS: Hitches
Anchor (Fisherman’s) Bend
Buntline Hitch
Highwayman’s Hitch
Camel Hitch
Rolling Hitch
Pole Hitch
Pile (Post) Hitch
Constrictor Knot
Double Constrictor Knot
11 CLIMBING KNOTS: Hitches
Bachmann Hitch
Munter (Italian) Hitch
Girth Hitch
Klemheist Knot
Garda Knot
Prusik Knot
Round Turn and Two Half Hitches
12 CLIMBING KNOTS: Bends
Hunter’s (Rigger’s) Bend
Fisherman’s Knot
Double Fisherman’s Knot
Water Knot
Figure 8 Bend
13 CLIMBING KNOTS: Loops
Figure 8 Follow-Through
Figure 8 Double Loop
Figure 8 Triple Loop
Loop Knot
Alpine Butterfly
Spanish Bowline
Interlocking Loops
14 MISCELLANEOUS KNOTS
Sheepshank
Eye Splice
Back Splice
Common Whipping
Asher’s Bottle Sling
Knife Lanyard Knot
Monkey’s Fist
Simple Chain Sinnet (Monkey Chain)
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR