Getting knotted
Puzzling through the diagrams and descriptions of knots in a book may be good for my mental fitness, but Alan Folsom’s animations make the whole thing easier to grasp.
Of course, I still enjoy the flavour of the Admiralty Manual of Seamanship (my copy, a hand-me-down from my father’s father, is the 1915 edition). Here is what it says about the Sheet Bend:
Sheet Bend (or Swab Hitch). — In making a bend the ends of the two ropes are not used simultaneously as in forming a reef knot, but an eye or loop is first formed in the end of one of the ropes, as in Fig.1, and the other rope’s end is then rove through it in various ways according to the bend desired. Used for securing boat’s lazy painters to the Jacob’s ladders of the Lower Booms.
To form a Sheet Bend, pass the second rope’s end underneath the eye at point a and bring up through the loop, then form with it a half hitch round c and b (Fig. 2).
It will hold still better, and is less likely to jamb, if the end is passed round again as in Fig. 3. This is called a Double Sheet Bend.
What my Des Pawson pocket guide to knots & splices has to offer in the way of twines and ropes and photographs of same in bright colours, your Admiralty Manual of Seamanship more than makes up in the elegance of its illoes. Can't really beat a well illustrated hitch.
no afence it sucks i want intructions how to actuly do a sheet bend
try 2 do that
Sarah, since you asked so nicely I'll suggest you click the link to Alan Folsom's animations where you'll find instructions for tieing the ordinary sheet bend. After that, why don't you check the dictionary for ‘offence’, ‘actually’ and ‘irony’.
Ah, Youth....
It is so refreshing to see that young people don't trouble themselves with trivial things like manners, respect, grammar or spelling. I'll bet Sarah is a charming lass.