Animated Knots – for all your cliff-dangling, boat-fastening, main-staying needs.
A step by step, rabbit-goes-in-the-hole guide to every knot you’ll ever need – broken down by category (fishing, surgical, climbing, decorative, kinabaku, etc.)
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I have to say, I’ve been on a boat, sorry – yaucht – only a few times – she was a 29ft racing yaucht, I went from Littlehampton to The Isle of Wight. I did the tie and un-tie thing – I’ve never seen anything so convoluted . The tying thing is just something that fishermen do to pass their time?
There are different knots for different requirements, and a knot that is ease to tie (and tie correctly) is a requirement sure, but for example a knot with more loops can be easier to untie after the knot has been put under heavy load.
Knowing how a knot might fail or come loose is another issue. You would use a very different knot for a fixed weight compared to something on a boat that might be moving back and forth with the current.
And as you say sometimes people like to make the knot complicated because they can.
You know knotting, John Snow.