Exempel på clove hitch

• Jumping ashore with the bow line, he wrapped a clove hitch round the trunk of a palm.

• By day's end, I can steer into a lock without a bump, negotiate bends and oncoming boats and tie a "clove hitch" knot.

• Each dahlia has a single bamboo cane with some string fixed round it attached with a clove hitch.

• At the exhibition you can play with pirate flags, tie reef knots and clove hitch knots, and learn about wicked pirates.

• Third, many admirable local councillors, with the best will in the world, just do not know port from starboard or a bowline from a clove hitch.

• A clove hitch is two successive half-hitches around an object.

• Now, tuck the working end under the standing part of the original clove hitch.

• It is one of the four basic maritime knots (the other three are figure-eight knot, reef knot and clove hitch).

• Equivalently, it consists of a half-turn around a post followed by a clove hitch of the running end around the standing part.

• The slippery hitch is effectively a clove hitch finished with a slipped loop.

• Then make an additional turn around with the working end, in the same direction as the turns forming the clove hitch.

• Two successive half hitches tied around an object makes up the common clove hitch.

• With certain types of cord, the clove hitch can slip when loaded.

• It is made similarly to a clove hitch but with one end passed under the other, forming an overhand knot under a riding turn.

• Along with the sheet bend and the clove hitch, the bowline is often considered one of the most essential knots.

• The additional friction from the clove hitch increases the security of this knot.

• This knot is also sometimes referred to as a clove hitch over itself.

• It can be finished with a clove hitch, which is also known as double half-hitch.

• A mecate knot begins at the heel knot of the bosal, where the mecate is anchored with a wrap of rope similar to the clove hitch.