Level: 2
Category: Recreation
Year: 1975

Knot Tying

  1. Define the following terms:
    1. Bight
    2. Running end
    3. Standing part
    4. Underhand loop
    5. Overhand loop
    6. Turn
    7. Bend
    8. Hitch
    9. Splice
    10. Whipping
  2. Know how to care for rope.
  3. Describe the difference between laid rope and braided rope and list three uses of each.
  4. Identify the following types of rope:
    1. Manila
    2. Sisal
    3. Nylon
    4. Polyprophylene
  5. What are some advantages and disadvantages of synthetic rope?
  6. Do the following to rope:
    1. Splice
    2. Eye Splice
    3. Back Splice
    4. Finish the end of a rope with a double crown, whipping, or a Matthew Walker's knot.
  7. Make a six-foot piece of three-strand rope from native materials or twine.
  8. From memory tie at least 20 of the following knots and know their common uses and limitations. Demonstrate how they are used.
    1. Anchor bend
    2. Bindertwine Bend
    3. Blackwall Hitch
    4. Bow or Shoestring
    5. Bowline
    6. Bowline on a bight
    7. Butterfly loop knot or Alpine Slip knot
    8. Carrick bend
    9. Clove hitch
    10. Double Bowline
    11. Double Carrick Bend
    12. Figure eight
    13. Fisherman's knot
    14. Halter hitch
    15. Hunter's bend
    16. Lariat or Bowstring knot
    17. Lark's head
    18. Man harness knot
    19. Miller's Knot
    20. Packer's knot
    21. Pipe hitch
    22. Prusik knot
    23. Running bowline
    24. Sheepshank
    25. Sheet bend
    26. Slipped half hitch
    27. Slipped sheet bend
    28. Square knot
    29. Stevedore's knot
    30. Strangle knot
    31. Surgeon's knot
    32. Tautline hitch
    33. Timber hitch
    34. Two half hitches
    35. Wall knot
  9. Make a knot board showing 25 or more knots.