APPENDIX 193 



Treble Wall Knot — Same as the preceding- but continuing 

 the ends under and up through the next bight a 

 third time. The skill in these knots is to tighten 

 them evenly, otherwise thev present an irregular 

 appearance. 



With any of the Wall Knots the strands may be 

 laid up again into rope so that the knot will be at 

 some distance from the end; this gives a fancy 

 appearance and a number of combinations may be 

 worked out of these various knots. 



Pointing a Rope — This is an ornamental finish to the end 

 of a rope; it is also useful for a rope that has to 

 be hurriedly rove through a block. 

 A temporary seizing is put around a rope as far 

 from the end as the beginning of the point. The 

 strands of the rope are unravelled into yarns — the 

 yarns being the small bundles of fibers or strings 

 of which the strand is composed. 

 All of the yarns at the outside of the rope, that is, 

 those that lie on the circumference, are stopped 

 back (Fig. t.) while those left and forming what is 

 now the core, are cut and scraped down to a 

 tapering shape somewhat like a blunt carrot. 

 This blunt carrot part is now tightly wrapped with 

 marlin or small stuff so that if becomes a rigid 

 conical end. These operations are shown in an un- 

 finished state in Fig. /. 



The rim of yarns around the rope's circumference, 

 and which have been stopped back, are now known 

 as nettles and are separated into two divisions. 



