| FIG. | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | —Overhand Knot | 15 |
| 2. | —Fourfold Overhand Knot, Loose and Taut | 15 |
| 3. | —Figure-of-eight Knot | 16 |
| 4. | —Sailor’s Knots or Reef Knots | 16 |
| 5. | —Sailor’s Reef Knot, Half-made | 17 |
| 6. | —Granny or Lubber’s Knot | 17 |
| 7. | —Granny Knot, Taut | 18 |
| 8. | —Overhand Rosette Knot or Bow | 19 |
| 9. | —Weaver’s Knot, Half-made | 20 |
| 10. | —Weaver’s Knot, Closed | 21 |
| 11. | —Overhand Knot Joining Two Ropes | 21 |
| 12. | —Flemish Knot Joining Two Ropes | 22 |
| 13. | —Fisherman’s Knot | 22 |
| 14. | —Whipcord Knot | 23 |
| 15. | —Running Knot | 24 |
| 16. | —Fisherman’s Eye Knot | 25 |
| 17. | —Openhand Eye Knot | 25 |
| 18. | —Flemish Eye Knot | 26 |
| 19. | —Crabber’s Eye Knot | 26 |
| 20. | —Bowline Knot | 27 |
| 21. | —Running Bowline on Bight | 28 |
| 22. | —Running Knot with Two Ends—Loose | 29 |
| 23. | —Running Knot with Two Ends—Fastened | 29 |
| 24. | —Two Half Hitches | 30 |
| 25. | —Builder’s Knot | 31 |
| 26. | —Timber Hitch | 32 |
| 27. | —Killick Hitch | 33 |
| 28. | —Magnus Hitch | 33 |
| 29. | —Fisherman’s Bend | 34 |
| 30. | —Rolling Hitch | 34 |
| 31. | —Topsail Halliard Bend | 35 |
| 32. | —Racking Hitch | 35 |
| 33. | —Slippery Hitch | 36 |
| 34. | —Carrick Bend | 36 |
| 35. | —Bending Sheet to Clew of Sail | 37 |
| 36. | —More Secure Sheet Bend | 38 |
| 37. | —Bending Rope to Loop | 38 |
| 38. | —Blackwall Hitch | 39 |
| 39. | —Midshipman’s Hitch | 40 |
| 40. | —Marlinespike Hitch | 40 |
| 41. | —Regulating Lashing | 41 |
| 42. | —Stationer’s Knot | 41 |
| 43. | —Slippery Ring Knot | 43 |
| 44. | —Boat Knot | 44 |
| 45. | —Lark Boat Knot | 44 |
| 46. | —Lark’s Head | 45 |
| 47. | —Lark’s Head Stoppered | 45 |
| 48. | —Lark’s Head with Crossed Ends | 46 |
| 49. | —Double Lark’s Head | 46 |
| 50. | —Treble Lark’s Head | 47 |
| 51. | —Backhanded Sailor’s Knot | 47 |
| 52. | —Capstan Knot | 48 |
| 53. | —Another Form of Sailor’s Knot | 48 |
| 54. | —Gunner’s Knot | 49 |
| 55. | —Beginning of Artillery Knot | 50 |
| 56. | —Artillery Knot Finished | 50 |
| 57. | —Bend Shortening | 51 |
| 58. | —Chain Knot | 51 |
| 59. | —Beginning Chain Knot | 52 |
| 60. | —Twist Knot | 53 |
| 61. | —Beginning Twist Knot | 53 |
| 62. | —Sheepshanks | 54 |
| 63. | —Sheepshanks Fastened | 54 |
| 64. | —Sheepshanks Knotted | 54 |
| 65. | —Sheepshanks Knotted | 55 |
| 66. | —Boat Knot Shortening or Sheepshanks Toggled | 56 |
| 67. | —Knot Shortening | 56 |
| 68. | —Beginning Knot Shortening | 57 |
| 69. | —Double Chain Knot | 57 |
| 70. | —Wedding Knot | 59 |
| 71. | —Chain Knot Lashed to Spar | 59 |
| 72. | —Improved Chain Knot | 60 |
| 73. | —Cross Lashing | 60 |
| 74. | —Necklace Tie | 61 |
| 75. | —Packing Knot | 61 |
| 76. | —Finishing off Whipping | 62 |
| 77. | —Finishing off Whipping | 62 |
| 78. | —Nippering | 63 |
| 79. | —West Country Whipping | 63 |
| 80. | —Catspaw | 64 |
| 81. | —Beginning Catspaw | 64 |
| 82. | —Securing Block to Rope | 65 |
| 83. | —Wall Knot | 66 |
| 84. | —Stopper Knot | 66 |
| 85. | —Beginning Crowning | 67 |
| 86. | —Crowning Complete | 67 |
| 87. | —Beginning Manrope Knot | 68 |
| 88. | —Manrope Knot | 68 |
| 89. | —Tack Knot | 68 |
| 90. | —Matthew Walker Knot | 69 |
| 91. | —Matthew Walker Knot | 70 |
| 92. | —Beginning Diamond Knot | 70 |
| 93. | —Diamond Knot before Hauling Taut | 71 |
| 94. | —Single Diamond Knot | 72 |
| 95. | —Double Diamond Knot | 72 |
| 96. | —Shroud Knot | 73 |
| 97. | —Beginning Turk’s Head | 74 |
| 98. | —Turk’s Head | 75 |
| 99. | —Single Pitcher Knot | 77 |
| 100. | —Beginning Single Pitcher Knot | 77 |
| 101. | —Pitcher with Rope Handle | 77 |
| 102. | —Double Pitcher Knot | 79 |
| 103. | —Beginning Double Pitcher Knot | 79 |
| 104. | —Can or Jar in Sling | 80 |
| 105. | —Beginning Can Sling | 81 |
| 106. | —Shamrock Knot | 82 |
| 107. | —Beginning Shamrock Knot | 82 |
| 108. | —Another Way of making Shamrock Knot | 83 |
| 109. | —Beginning Dalliance Knot | 84 |
| 110. | —Next Stage in Dalliance Knot | 85 |
| 111. | —Davenport Brothers’ Knot | 86 |
| 112. | —Bellringer’s Knot | 87 |
| 113. | —Beginning Short Splice | 89 |
| 114. | —Marlinespike | 90 |
| 115. | —Pricker | 90 |
| 116. | —Long Rope Splice | 91 |
| 117. | —Cut Splice | 92 |
| 118. | —Beginning Cut Splice | 93 |
| 119. | —Eye Splice | 93 |
| 120. | —Splicing Grommet | 94 |
| 121. | —Finishing off Grommet | 95 |
| 122. | —Flemish Eye | 96 |
| 123. | —Grommet | 97 |
| 124. | —Selvagee | 98 |
| 125. | —Selvagee fastening Block to Rope | 99 |
| 126. | —Worming, Parcelling, and Marling | 100 |
| 127. | —Serving | 100 |
| 128. | —Belaying | 101 |
| 129. | —Fairleader | 101 |
| 130. | —Belaying Pin | 102 |
| 131. | —Toggle | 103 |
| 132. | —Another Form of Toggle | 104 |
| 133. | —Fender on Side of Boat | 104 |
| 134. | —Fender with Ropeyarn Heart | 105 |
| 135. | —Thimble Side View | 106 |
| 136. | —Thimble Cross Section | 106 |
| 137. | —Mousing a Hook | 106 |
| 138. | —Stropping a Block | 107 |
| 139. | —Pointing a Rope | 108 |
| 140. | —Another Method of Pointing a Rope | 108 |
| 141. | —Mainstay | 109 |
| 142. | —Shear-legs | 110 |
| 143. | —Wall Knot | 111 |
| 144. | —Crown | 111 |
| 145. | —Crown Hauled Taut | 111 |
| 146. | —Manrope Knot | 112 |
| 147. | —Pointing End of Yoke Line | 112 |
| 148. | —Fastening off Yoke Line | 113 |
| 149. | —Yoke Line Complete | 114 |
| 150. | —Stern Ladder | 114 |
| 151. | —Round of Stern Ladder | 114 |
| 152. | —Single Rope Ladder with Chocks | 115 |
| 153. | —Toe Chock for Rope Ladder | 116 |
| 154. | —Rope Ladder with Rungs | 117 |
| 155. | —Wood Rung | 118 |
| 156. | —Pilot Ladder | 119 |
| 157. | —Side Piece of Pilot Ladder | 120 |
| 158. | —Beginning Mat | 121 |
| 159. | —Mat Making | 123 |
| 160. | —Netting Needle | 125 |
| 161. | —Netting Needle | 125 |
| 162. | —Mesh Stick | 125 |
| 163. | —Mesh Stick Cross Section | 125 |
| 164. | —Loop in Meshing | 126 |
| 165. | —First Stage in Meshing | 126 |
| 166. | —Second Stage in Meshing | 127 |
| 167. | —Third Stage in Meshing | 127 |
| 168. | —Chain of Meshes | 128 |
| 169. | —Beginning of Cross Netting | 129 |
| 170. | —Hammock Clew | 129 |
| 171. | —Rope Lashing for Poles and Ledgers | 130 |
| 172. | —Chain Lashing for Poles and Ledgers | 130 |
| 173. | —Rope Lashing for Putlogs | 130 |
| 174. | —Poles Lashed and Wedged, with Footing | 131 |
| 175. | —Slinging Plank for Use as Stage | 132 |
| 176. | —Boatswain’s Chair | 132 |
| 177. | —Colliery Band Rope Driving System | 134 |
| 178. | —“Marrying” a Wire Rope Splice | 135 |
| 179. | —Method of Serving Wire Rope | 136 |
| 180. | —Partly-finished Splice | 137 |
| 181. | —Wire Rope ready for Splicing | 137 |
| 182. | —Right-handed Splice, First Tuck | 138 |
| 183. | —Right-handed Splice, all Ends Tucked Once | 139 |
| 184. | —Left-handed Splice, First Tuck | 140 |
| 185. | —Left-handed Splice, all Ends Tucked Once | 141 |
| 186. | —Long Splice, all Ends ready for Tucking | 145 |
| 187. | —Making Round Joint | 146 |
| 188. | —Half-round Top-Swage | 147 |
| 189. | —Wire Rope Clamp | 148 |
| 190. | —Link Socket | 148 |
| 191. | —Side View of Socket | 149 |
| 192. | —Socket Opened Out | 149 |
| 193. | —Socket in Wire Rope | 149 |
| 194. | —Hooped Winding Rope Socket | 150 |
| 195. | —Preparing Bulb on Wire Rope End | 151 |
| 196. | —Finished Bulb on Wire Rope End | 151 |
| 197. | —Set-hammer for Tightening Hoops | 152 |
| 198. | —Solid Socket with Closed Ends | 152 |
| 199. | —Solid Socket with Closed Ends | 152 |
| 200. | —Plan of Solid Socket with Open End | 153 |
| 201. | —Elevation of a Solid Socket with Open End | 153 |
| 202. | —Another Elevation of a Solid Socket with Open End | 153 |
| 203. | —Riveted Flat Rope Socket | 154 |
| 204. | —Cramped Flat Rope Socket | 154 |
| 205. | —Socket Cramp | 155 |
| 206. | —Riveting Spikes | 155 |
| 207. | —Riveting Spikes | 155 |
| 208. | —Rivet | 155 |