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easily undone. In attempting this a landsman nearly always 

 ties what sailors would call a 'granny's knot.' The two can 

 be compared in the diagram. A bowline knot is also very 

 useful. A running bowline is simply made by placing the end 

 of the rope B through the loop A. The clove hitch is a safe 

 and very useful knot for fastening a rope to a round piece 

 of timber : the harder the rope is pulled, the tighter it jams. 

 The timber hitch is used for similar purposes. The rolling 

 hitch is, in a sense, an improvement on the clove hitch, and is 

 used for like purposes, more particularly for making fast tail- 



ATTACHMENT OF ROPE TO ANCHOR ON ROCKY GROUND 



blocks to the standing rigging. In the illustration is also 

 shown the method of fastening a rope to a mooring stone. 

 Any knot which is intended to be more or less permanent will 

 be made all the more secure by the ends being whipped down 

 to the main length of rope. 



When using an anchor over ground which is partially rocky, 

 it is a good plan to ' scow ' or ' trip ' it. It will be seen from the 

 illustration that the rope is made fast to the wrong end of the 

 anchor, but is held to the ring by means of a piece of yarn strong 

 enough to hold the boat and yet so weak that it will break if 

 a very heavy strain is given to it, as would be the case should 



