When to tie which knot on a boat
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- čas přidán 13. 02. 2016
- This video talks about different knots and when to use them. It also covers things beyond the basic tying of the knots such as short cuts to tying them and how to get them undone again. The knots covered are the bowline, clover hitch, round turn and two half hitches, highwayman's hitch, anchor hitch, sheet bend and various cleat techniques.
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This video is one of the most useful I have seen on knots. I like your approach to this technique. Good work on easily demonstrating the use and purposes of these knots. I had no trouble following your steps in tying and manipulating the rope. Thank you very much for this excellent training video.
Thanks mate, glad you found it helpful. :)
At last! Someone who knows how to tie a bowline and use a cleat properly. The rolling technique allows one to tie a bowline one-handed. Useful if you already have a load on the line.
Dad went to sea at 14yo on the last of the commercial sailing vessels out of NZ to London via the Horn and learned from professional seamen. I remember as a young fella sitting on the end of his bed learning those techniques. Have hardly seen anyone since tie a bowline properly, and many of those were ‘professional’ sailors.
Top job, as usual.
Knife comment critical. Bought my son a knife recently for this exact reason when we are sailing. Thanks.
Great idea for a video. I agree that knowing how to tie the knot is only half the battle if you don't know how and where to use them.
+Seth Hoffman Thanks Seth. I had this video on my mind for a while. There really isn't much information out there at all on using knots, just how to tie them.
Very interesting information explained in a captivating way. Somehow I just thoroughly enjoyed watching a random 25min video on knots lol. Cheers
Ha! Thanks Matt. I'm not sure it was my most interesting video but thanks for making it to the end! ;)
Very useful to see the applications explained so well.
I'm a paramedic firefighter and have been teaching ropes for over a decade. many, if not all of the boating knots are the same. Personally my favorite knots are the bowline, split locking clove, butterfly, and left/right hand butterfly. figure of 8/8 on a bight are great knots as well
Hey Kevin. It is interesting when you get to know knots well how similar they are in principle. I'll check out those knots you mentioned, I only know a couple of them.
Great video. I liked that you gave some context on where to use knots.
Thanks mate, I wanted to make this video after seeing so many knot videos that only talked about tying them.
Great video, thank you. I was taught on a sail training ship "Would you come on deck in harbour without your trousers? - Well don't come on deck at sea without your knife..."
You might want to do a video on joining modern woven as opposed to three part ropes in which case I would suggest that you add 3 more knots, the Short Sheepshank, the Double Bowline and the Carrick Bend. I find the last of those particularly useful as it doesn't come loose whatever happens incidentally to any of its parts, but still comes undone very easily when required.
Excellent placement of the disco ball in the background of many shots. You're bloody hilarious that way Stu! Also some good advice on knots . . . :)
Every knot video needs a disco ball!
Awesome. It helps to slow mo this video to keep up with the steps. Amazing that the sheep bend holds because the larger rope is simply a shepherd's hook with one turn.
You’re filled with cool knowledge.
Thanks John.
18:20 we call that locking off a knot! Use it tying small boats on collar(running line?) and when you tie the head and foot ropes of nets together with rolling hitches.
Another good use of the bowline I've found is at your home slip when you need the spliced end of a dock line to be around a piling that's away from the dock but you still want a loop to run through a cleat on your boat. You can leave the line on the piling when you go out, then when you get back you can run the bowline loop through a cleat on your boat. This way you get a loop through your boat cleat but can still adjust the line from your boat if necessary by untying the bowline and adjusting.
I used the highwaymans hitch to hold my pants up. quick tug and the kracken was revealed ... and she was impressed ...LOL
The importance of a knife at hand was the most important bookend for this great video. We have all seen or had near misses like that and a prepared person with a knife in a split second made everything better but the moments before are excruciating and seem to last hours. A video on 'knives on board' would be a cool video for your channel. Happy Easter brother.
+Bernievids Thanks mate. I've had a couple of friends lose fingers to deck lines under tension, you certainly can't be too careful.
Excellent video. Great other use of the clove is for a hoisting knot as it is self tightening. Half hitches simple yet effective are premier safeties. The part of carry a knife just in case , is something I always have on me , yet some don't so maybe they'll reconsider. Thanks!!!
You're dead right about always having a sharp knife somewhere handy on a boat. Can be a life saver.
Thanks Mate! I love your boat, that's all I need in Nashville, TN!
I wish it was mine! :)
The boat at 1:47 is the one I am talking about. Nice.
very good video, thanks
I love your videos.....Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks mate. :)
Gday mate hahaha that is exactly what my old dad said when he taught me the bowline knot almost to the word ,great for pulling out trailers after beach launches or retrieves
For sure, it is a great knot for any situation like that were you have a high load and can then get some slack in the rope before undoing it.
Good tutorial, thanks!
+keimolantio Glad you liked it. :)
Excellent video. Keep them coming.
+David Holmes Thanks David!
+Dangar Marine I just bought my first power boat and am trying to get schooled on some of the basics before I need to post one of those "five stupid things I did to my boat" videos. Your videos, I find, to be thoughtful, personable, unique and helpful.
Thanks David, it's great to hear you like the vids. Good luck with the new boat. With the home work you are doing it sounds like you'll be avoiding that five stupid things with ease, but to be honest, boats make fools out of the best of us. ;)
The bow line saved me from injury when I was doing a hike in the park once, It saved us from the slip. For extra measures you can also do a bow line with a clove hitch when creating the first eye
Yes, when I really want the security I also do a few hitches after a bowline.
When I first learned the bow line I remember the fella teaching me pointing to a Class 4O British rail engine saying as long as the rope is strong enough you can pull that loco using a bow line and be able to get it undone again, so true, can pull a car, a tank, a ship, I've seen builders even took a wall down in demolition by tying a bow line around the whole wall and using a wagon as tow rope. Whoever invented it must've been very clever, keep up the good videos.
Good information. I have to look up knots.
I noticed you had 2 disco balls. That's awesome!
What boat is complete without disco balls? ;)
Its the only reason he goes on that boat, for the disco balls!
Another good video! Knowing what knot to use when and why is almost never covered elsewhere. Mind if I point my navigation & boatmanship students to your site?
+tommy lennhamn Thanks Tommy, I decided to this video after seeing so many videos on how to tie knots and nothing on their use. Feel free to point your students to the channel, the more the merrier. :)
ANIMATED KNOTS BY GROG is the best app and website I have found
+oledognes Thanks mate, I didn't know about that site. It's exactly the reason I didn't want to do another "how to tie knots" video. :)
I enjoy your videos BTW, I`m a fresh boat owner
The Grog site is very good and very comprehensive, but not the 'be all and end all'. This (Dangar's utube) confirmed, reinforced, and clarified a number of issues for me. Good idea about reinforcing the loop over the bit with a twist around the base of the bit - good idea to always carry a sharp knife, etc., etc.
Hey Stu, I was thinking you could have added the loggers hitch when you need to take the strain off the anchor chain or any other line/rope even when its fully loaded. André
Two very useful knots which I use regularly, in addition to those you mentioned. For joining tow ropes, however heavy, my knot of choice is the Carrick bend, secure, easy to tie and easy to untie however much load has been applied, it can even be used to tie steel cables together. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrick_bend
The second is the Rolling hitch, a friction knot which is used for lengthwise pull along an object rather than at right angles to it, very useful for tying to poles, or gripping an already tensioned rope in order to relieve the tension on one end of it, commonly used when sailing to release jammed winches. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_hitch.
A variation on the rolling hitch is the Tautline hitch, which is great for tensioning the guy ropes on your tent, when you find you've lost one those metal tensioner things they normally use!
Carrick bend is a very good looking knot too! ;)
Good vid Stu. Show them the slipped bowline, doubling the bitter end back through the hole so you can undo knot if standing end is under tension, say if you tow a tender.
Hi Matt, glad you enjoyed. Yes, the slip bowline is a useful variation , that's for sure.
Dangar Marine the TAG end. is the end part of the rope.
Please do a video on boat towing if you get chance (pushing/towing side by side/alongside//general towing/bridal tows etc) handy to know and not many videos on that
Yes, that has been on my to-do list for quite some time.
Been looking for a knife like that , how would you call it , any information please?
Disco ball ........ Knots for impressing girls ......... Getting set for the weekend. ha ha.good and informative video.
+Jarle Børve I'm glad we're still in our summer... Bring on the weekend! :D
Standard practice is to not join two lines with knots such as a bowline due to chafing. How then are chafing issues with soft shackles not a problem? I plan to start using improved soft shackles on my boat.
Yes.. Bitter end :)
Is that a disco ball?? Are you also known as Disco Stu??
I've never used an ordinary bowlinw for a painter. use somehing which will be easy to undo if under pressure and if the tender jig jogs/
Yeah, depending on the situation I do find a round turn and two half hitches good.
Hi Stu,
What kind of knot would you use to tie a loop in the middle of a rope? When I anchor my boat I don't have a cleat to fix the rope to, so I tie a loop in the rope and clip it off to the nose ring with a carabiner. Thanks
Ah, great question. I should have shown that as it is one of my favourite knots to tie, in fact it is the knot tied in the channel ad. The Alpine Buttery fly or the Chinaman's hitch is the one you are after. Really kicking myself for not putting that in now!
+Dangar Marine Thanks, I'll get that 3D knots app and look it up
THE best mid-line loop.
At 11.40 when joining two ropes rather than bowline a Zeppelin bend is neater and strong and comes undone when wanted.
A Zepplin bend is certainly a good option, the point was more that there are a couple of options if you don't know that many knots.
At 9.29 Is that cleat in the background tied correctly?
Not sure, can't recall how it was done.
You do it too how the heck do you manage to keep the tag end to stay within the final loop? Mine always point to the stars.
Which knot is this on?
Dangar Marine the bowline
mirror ball in background? Disco boat?
+Dayne Cowan Yeah, I should have through the knots for hanging that up. :)
Very practical. Haha
Tag end
Can you show us how to splice a roap
This video goes through that czcams.com/video/WT9Q8e8bY1g/video.html
Toujours super dommage pas de traduction française
Which Knots 3D app? I see at least 3 by that name at App Store.
It is the one with a red and yellow reef knot on the icon.
@@DangarMarine I've just looked for it, I think its a red and yellow sheet bend.
tag end
I've been doing the thing with two bowlines for years, being too lazy to learn more knots...
Skip to 2:07
can i see the
boat running
Must do a video on this boat one day. :)
It cant run, its got no legs
Rule #9- never go anywhere with out your knife.
Yep, having a knife on boat is very important for safety!
What are 1 - 8?
why is there a disco ball on the floor of the boat? 21:18
Doesn't every boat have one?
@@DangarMarine should be mandatory
A knot is something you can not untie. The proper ter. Is thing bends.
If you can't untie a knot you are doing them wrong.
Good video, but the cleat tie was not the best one.
Why not? I can't remember what it was.
First of all, there's not one single way to tie a line to a cleat, so please don't take my comment as harsh. But usually when tying to a cleat one shouldn’t give 3 turns at the base of the cleat (see 8:05), because the standing line (the one that goes to the boat or the the dock cleat) may trap the free side of the line and it can be hard to undo the cleat knot. What I have learned to work best, from observation, talking to other seamen and several CZcams videos, is the version where you pass the line twice in the base (an almost full turn in the cleat), then cross and under (like a half 8), then a half hitch. You can also do one or two other half hitches, but doesn't seem necessary. This version, I believe is very secure and also very easy to untie. Your videos are very good!
I sure could use "episode" numbers in the title, lol. This one needed to be at the beginning instead of the end, lol.
he keeps interjecting but mumbles the interjection part, very unclear
+speckspeck Try headphones.