Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 10:48:00 EDT
From: prodigy.com!MRPK81A@imagelan.com (MR TOM CLARKE)
Message-Id: <013.02132798.MRPK81A@prodigy.com>
To: baidarka@imagelan.com
Subject: Knots, hitches and bends...
To get really picky...:-)
A "knot" is tied in the end of a line...i.e., a figure eight
knot...
A "bend" is used to tie two lines together... a sheetbend or
a fishermen's bend...
A "hitch" attaches a line to an object... a tautline hitch.
Then there are exceptions.. a "square knot" (it's really a
bend)...
So... the line attached to an anchor using two round turns
and two half hitches (first one through the two round turns)
is, I believe, called an anchor hitch... The fishermens
bend I used to tie two squid lines together is the two
interlocking overhand knots, each going over the standing
part of the other line...
The other side of this is that I'm doing this all from
memory, and I could very well be wrong...TLC