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It’s called an “Admiralty Stopper Knot”. (British Admiralty I’m sure). Better than figure of 8s any day of the week.
Tim Sowerby
Hi Tim,
Thanks Tim, good to know so others can look it up.
That’s what I know it as. It was the preferred knot on Clipper Round The World race for the bitter-end of foresail sheets – always leaving a long tail to bend-on another line in the event of a sheet getting jammed.
I had thought this would be a slight variation of the Stevedore Stopper Knot (ABOK #456), or similar (but shorter in wraps) to the Heaving Line Knot (ABOK #538) https://www.animatedknots.com/stevedore-stopper-knot https://www.animatedknots.com/heaving-line-knot
It’s called an “Admiralty Stopper Knot”. (British Admiralty I’m sure).
Better than figure of 8s any day of the week.
Tim Sowerby
Hi Tim,
Thanks Tim, good to know so others can look it up.
That’s what I know it as. It was the preferred knot on Clipper Round The World race for the bitter-end of foresail sheets – always leaving a long tail to bend-on another line in the event of a sheet getting jammed.
I had thought this would be a slight variation of the Stevedore Stopper Knot (ABOK #456), or similar (but shorter in wraps) to the Heaving Line Knot (ABOK #538)
https://www.animatedknots.com/stevedore-stopper-knot
https://www.animatedknots.com/heaving-line-knot