BASICS

                           THE BASICS

CONTENTS

1: OVERHAND KNOT
2: REEF KNOT
3: SHEET BEND
4: NOOSE KNOT
5: SLIP KNOT
6: FIGURE 8 KNOT

                                OVERHAND KNOT

USE: It is used as a stopper knot and also keeps an end of a rope form unraveling. 

                                   HALF HITCH

USE: tied with one end of a rope being passed around an object and secured to its own standing part with a Single Hitch.

                                     REEF KNOT

USE: To join two ropes of the same size. Other uses: you can tie your shoe laces with this knot.

                                  SHEET BEND

USE: Joining two ropes of different sizes.

                                  NOOSE KNOT

USE: It has been used as a snare to catch small animals.

                                      SLIP KNOT

USE: It can be used as a temporary stopper knot.

                               FIGURE 8 KNOT

Uses: The Figure 8 provides a quick and convenient stopper knot to prevent a line sliding out of sight, e.g., up inside the mast. Its virtue is that, even after it has been jammed tightly against a block, it doesn't bind; it can be undone easily. This virtue is also, occasionally, a vice. The figure 8 can fall undone and then has to be retied.