KNOTS

The Surgeon’s Knot is a easy to tie knot and a slight modification of the Reef Knot. It has an extra twist (or you could throw in even more twists if you like) making it a bit more secure [...]

The Oysterman’s Knot (also known as the Ashley’s Stopper Knot) is a stopper knot developed by knot expert Clifford Ashley. It is quite a bulky knot, good for stopping a rope from [...]

The Sheepshank Knot is a knot used to shorten a length of rope or to protect a damaged section of rope by keeping tension off it. The Sheepshank Knot is highly likely to slip and come undone. It [...]

The Stevedore knot is a stopper knot that’s basically a Figure of Eight Knot with a couple of extra turns to give it more volume. This knot thanks it’s name to the dockworkers [...]

The Sink Stopper is a stopper knot, best used to prevent thinner ropes from slipping through bigger holes. It is quite a voluminous knot, but be careful when dressing the knot that it [...]

The Angler’s Loop is an easy to tie fixed loop. It is also known as the Perfection Loop, a name it earned for the ability to tie the loop perfectly in line with the standing end. It’s [...]

The Spanish Bowline contains two adjustable loops, joined by the same rope. It was originally used as a rescue knot, where the person being rescued would hold on to the loops while the rescuer [...]

The Englishman’s Loop (also known as the Fisherman’s Eye) is a fixed loop made with two varieties of the Overhand Knot and is essentially a looped version of the Fisherman’s [...]

The Portuguese Bowline is essentially a Bowline with two loops. It can be used with two equal sized loops as a reinforced Bowline. Another option is to have either two different sized loops or [...]