200 KNOTS, SPLICES, AND BENDS. 



A Bend (fig. 54). The method of connecting two ropes or 

 lines, and additional security is obtained by passing the end 

 round the bow and underneath its own part a second time. 



FIG. 54. 



For facilitating the joining and casting-off of seine-net ropes, 

 c., an eye or loop is often spliced in one of the ends. 



The Bowline Knot (fig. 55). One of the most important 

 knots to fishermen and sailors, and particularly useful to 

 amateurs whenever it is requisite to make fast a boat to a ring 

 likely to be submerged on a rising tide, as the lower part of the 

 knot in the engraving may be made sufficiently long to reach 

 the level of high water if desired, when the knot being cast off 

 the end of the rope maybe hauled through the 

 ring, and the boat set at liberty. 



FIG. 55. 



The Timber Hitch (fig. 56). A speedy method of securing 

 a piece of timber, spar, &c., whilst afloat, and very useful also 



