Learn 5 KNOTS for Sailing [Capable Cruising Guides]
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- Emily breaks down the 5 knots we used aboard our antique sailboat, including a couple that most sailors have never heard of. Learn why we chose these ones, and when to use them. Grab some rope or line, and practice along with slow-motion clips!
IN THIS EPISODE
Intro [00:00]
Jobs that require knots [00:45]
Qualities of a good knot [01:10]
How to master a knot [01:30]
The Knots:
--- 1) Stopper Knot [01:55]
-------- Slow-Motion Tie [02:58]
--- 2) Clove Hitch [03:14]
-------- Slow-Motion Tie [04:11]
--- Alpine Butterfly [4:33]
-------- Slow-Motion Tie [05:37]
--- Zeppelin [06:26]
-------- Slow-Motion Tie [08:16]
--- Bowline [08:45]
-------- Slow-Motion Tie [10:08]
Review [11:11]
Resources [12:13]
Future Videos? [13:04]
Outtakes [13:30]
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Best tutorial ever. Clear and to the point. No blablablabla
After a 35 year business career i sometimes coach people and groups on public speaking, using clear storylines and interim summaries, with a lot of emphasis on tone of voice and animation to engage people. Boating is a hobby and im pretty hopeless. So i really enjoyed your teaching style on all levels, i find your delivery and content are excellent! Many thanks
Ew talk & go mush 2 fast 4 me
Just set your player to play at half speed.
@@EmilyAndClark Right. TY old guy trying to keep ☝. Thanks for your time to educate
Well done.
THANK YOU WITH CAPITAL LETTERS
I know maybe three different knots (overhand, slip knot, and square knot... probably some others I've done by accident. On a good day I can even tie my shoes). Never too old to learn, right?
I really admire your no-BS teaching style, and your ability to use all four limbs simultaneously while coherently talking us through every step is the sign of a subject master!
Love the presentation of this. Concise, complete, and with really good context. That’s not typical of a video about knots.
I know them all to some degree but learned a little something new about each knot especially the zeppelin. Now I’m inspired to practice them all again but with my eyes closed and with your tweaks.
Thanks.
Thank you so much for these training videos! Ive watched this one about a dozen times and practicing as a beginner. Im learning and trying to master the little details that helps my sailing training
That butterfly knot tie! 🤯 NICE ONE!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I got a Whole Lotta Love for that Zeppelin knot.. I'ts new to me
Me too, and have recently experienced the disaster she describes with the square knot.
I've never heard of a Zeppelin up before either! Although it seems like a more complicated version of a sheet bend... And I've never had an issue with a sheet bend.
Gonna send you back to schooling
It's a good knot, but should probably not be used for dissimilar sized rope. Should use the zeppelin 1.5 (double tuck the thinner rope) or the more common sheet bend in those cases.
Alpine butterfly, and clove hitch are so fun to tie!!! So satisfying thank you, and incredibly useful cant wait to use them next time Im on the boat
The butterfly and 2 fishies knots are awesome!
Beautiful presentation of what can be a very confusing topic. I especially liked how she reviewed each knot. She kept it simple, straightforward, and easy to follow. Very nice job!!
Brilliant tutorial! As a newbie sailor, I need to learn these 5 knots quick sharp! Thank you.
Hello Emily and Clark--Great video! Thank you so much for producing such a nicely produced instructional. You asked us to suggest our favorites. One of my favorites is the rewoven figure 8. I am not sure if you are familiar with it, but probably so. I first learned it way back in 1983 in a climbing course with the Appalachian Mountain Club. You can tie it as a bend, securing 2 lines together or as a loop knot, for the dinghy astern. I trust it with my life, more than the bowline. With the modern line, a bowline can come out after a tug tug tug. The rewoven figure 8 will not come out, no matter what, even with modern stiff lines. I use it as my anchoring bend and as my anchoring loop as well. One of the advantages, other than ultimate security, is that you can tie it in the dark, completely blind, you need only to follow the path of the existing figure 8 like a snake. And it will come apart easily even after extreme loads. Kind regards, Ted
PS You could make another great video with the entire synch-down system: A bowline on the hard terminus, the alpine butterfly knot as a loop-pulley and the trucker's hitch (non-slipped) as the ultimate bomb proof securement. That's what I teach my scouts.
Very well done Emily! The Alpine Butterfly is very similar to a Trucker's Hitch, which are two of my favorite knots for leverage and purchase. Both are super handy. And the Zeppelin for me is like the Sheet Bend or Double Sheet Bend (if different diameters.) But the square knot that you demonstrated (or reef knot,) will work as well if you half hitch both ends. When I used to train horses, we would use the clove hitch with quick release loops like you did, but we would keep slipping additional qr loops through each other, and the last one would be straight through (not a loop) which keeps the horses from being able to untie the knot, but never tightens on itself. I had a horse who would untie a simple clove hitch in seconds, but with 2 or 3 quick release loops, and the last one straight through, in 25 years, she never untied it.
I really enjoy the practicality and substantive learning that Emily and Clark bring to the fore. An amazing amount of content that can be applied for many of life's challenges. Thanks for putting in all the hard work and gleaning your shared experiences
Superb video. Been out of sailing for years and its good to refresh from somneone who knows what they're doing. Thanks.
Love your Video!! Great choice of knots and particularly love your way of tying them. One knot which I would add as a personal favourite, the Midshipman's Hitch. In Scouting we often use the Taut-line Hitch, but the Midshipman I have found more secure. The Ashley Stopper knot is also a good knot, chunky, stable and easy to untie. Thanks for sharing, look forward to watching more.
Well done - I learnt a new useful knot. I use the "Rolling Hitch" a lot both at sea and on land, it is extremely useful and fits the 'easy to undo' criteria.
I wish more of my teachers in high school and college were like you. You explain things very well and make something like tying knots interesting! You don’t talk so slow that it makes me fall asleep but also not so fast that I can’t follow what you’re saying! Watched the whole way through just because I think you’re cool! ☺️
Thanks Emily, great tutorial! Looking forward to seeing ones on splicing and whipping too.
Excellent educator Emily! Thankful I accidentally came across this video. Your husband tied a very nice 'wedding' knot ring to match yours. Congratulations you two!
Perfect! I can tie 200 or so knots, so I know you really don't need that many - this hit on what's important in a concise and easy way. Perfect!
I really love knots, thanks for sharing new knots, my older knots got some decent upgrade when using it with the combination of new knots, very fun ☺️
There's something inspiring in just how into knots you are! Wonderfully relaxing and clear video
The knots I use for random tasks always end up being some kind of sailing knot. This video is a good example of why that is. They are easy to remember, very effective, and easy to get untied when you don't need them anymore. Great stuff
I learned a third way to tie a bowline and was taught to use it for when you never want it to come undone ie to tie your boat up to a mooring line. The Zepplin and the Alpine Butterfly knots were new to me. Very cool!
Hi Emily, excellent video. Very much appreciate the linkage between the type of knot and and its typical purpose. Will spend some time practicing. Cheers Kevin
Greetings again. I just want to say I learned two things today. I learned how to tie these knots because I was able to slow the video, and I learned how to slow the video. I got a two for one today. Much thanks to Emily and Clark and my daughter.
Loved it, thank you. Looking forward to the splicing and whipping. Hope you feel better soon.
Great video. You guys are the best. Keep them coming. Love learning anything about sailboats. Very informative. Thanks.
Emily outstanding video! I've been tieing knots for over 50 years. I started in Scouting and sailing. I carried it into my professional life as a teacher and a Firefighter. I like the way you tied the knot and showed how to apply its use. I have seen examples of people tieing beautiful knots but can't apply its use! Good job keep up the good work!!! Please be safe out there
Another good knot to tie two lines together is a lovers knot that I love.
Nice instructional. Thank you.
Thanks, guys.
Emily, you rock!
I'd never seen the zeppelin - awesome. 👏🏻
Thank you. I’m new to sailing besides sailing with my dad on San Francisco Bay. You made this knot tying very simple. Thank you.
What a great video! I've been away for a few months and I'm excited to see you two making these cool instructional videos.
Excellent clear video. Love the instant review of each knot.
Really great instructions! The way you demonstrate how to do these knots makes it easy.
Came for a refresher on knots and stayed for capable cruiser course. Very impressed with how you present the content !
Thank you for these easy to remember instructions. Too, Love the bowline rhymie about the tree and the rabbit! Yay!
That's really good Emily, thanks. Really useful to know how to do these notes properly. 👍🏼
Just learned all these knots tonight and you had the best presentation / explanation. Kick-ass.
Very good presentation! The slow-motion shots are a nice touch.
My hands move a bit differently tying the alpine butterfly loop, but the end result is the same knot.
The zeppelin bend is my preferred way to join two ropes. I tie it differently, but it's the same knot when I'm done.
I use two riding turns on a clove hitch. Maybe the clove hitch is a bit more secure, maybe I just like the way it looks.
The bowline and all its variations! Pick a few that work for you and stick with them. The standard bowline and Scott's locked bowline cover all the bases for me.
Y'all are the best. Thanks for making videos.
Well, dang. As a guy who last tied any of these knots in Sea Scouts something like 45 years ago (save the reef/square knot), this is a gem of a find. Saved for later!
Glad you found it interesting Trane.
Funny that you can get a alpine that way. At least you did not do the 1 second not a bowline challenge. : ) hope you guys are now feeling better.
Great job on the knots Emily. Very well explained and easy to follow demo.
Awesome! Learning the alpine butterfly felt like learning a magic trick :D
This is great. Thanks for the honest and entertaining video. I think you nailed the five necessary knots.
Clark's bowline is my all-time favorite knot, and one I've been using and teaching for far more than fifty years. I first taught myself to tie this one to be used in cave diving. With fifteen minutes of practice, this can be tied underwater while wearing gloves in the dark, since it can be tied without letting go of the line. (Yeah, people have told me for years that it isn't possible to tie a bowline without letting go, and I love proving them wrong.) It's also called a "sheet bend" or a "short-end sheet bend" depending on the use and method of tying. Another common name is the "flying bowline" when tied in heavy lines.
I look forward to watching more from both of you. Keep sailing!
You are the first other person who I've heard of that can tie a bowline that way. I teach kids this way too. -Clark
That's brilliant of tieing knots demo.thankyou Robert.
As an old roughneck I used all these knots but the one I depended on, the clove hitch, for my life many times tieing a 12X 2 stabbing board off in the derrick to run casing. Great video.
Learning to tie knots is a super useful skill not only for sailing but in every day life. I use knot regularly for various tasks. Always trying to learn different knots when I can for added skill. I was a Boy scout and a sailor in the Navy. These 5 knots will bring you more utility in everyday applications.
Hey, I loved this! Thanks! Because of you have I have these 5 knots memorized and under my belt and still playing around with making them during any down time. Yes, great break from the cellphone ;-).
That was awesome. Love the way you delivered the instructions lass 😃
Love your wedding knots!
Great vid. The most needed knots, all well explained.
I remember a USCG report that started with "a square not has killed more sailors than any other knot", needless to say, never used one after that.
Begining sailor here, thanks a lot for this video, I will be practicing each of these daily until they are second nature.
Don't kow if anyone else has mentioned this Emily - you make easy to understand and well paced instructional videos! :)
I'd never heard of the Zeppelin knot, everything else very well explained.
Subscribed.
Nice. Thanks for the video. I'm a former "petty officer" from Brazilian Navy, who dreams to live aboard, and I like, a lot, simple and objective stuff. Just save the channel at my favorites.
Nice technique, nice presentation, nice demonstration, nice explanation. Very well done. Thank You.
Nice video. I didn't know about the Alpine butterfly and the Zeppelin. The are all awesome. A good knot should be easy to do and undo.
Thank you for sharing!
cheers
Best explanation I’ve ever seen, thank you!
Well done (says the teacher of 25 yrs)! You were right, two knots new to me that I will practice this week until returning to the boat :)
Thank you!! Very informative. My daughter and I completed our boating licence and are practicing knots 🪢
Thank you very much for so clear and fun demonstration of these helpful knots. Excellent instructions.
Great video. Thank you! I need to practice the Zeppelin bend.
best knot tutorial ive seen as yet. well done very impressive
Thank you for a very clear explanation of the knots and their uses
As a rock climber I really appreciated the way you taught me how to tie a figure 8 a butterfly knot and a clove hitch a Easier thank you
Dear Emily, thanks a lot you described it so easy-to-use!
Awesome Tutorial. I love the Alpine Butterfly for 90 degree tension on a line, but I use a directional figure-eight if I am tensioning towards one side of the other (like a tie-down, or a trucker's hitch).
Hi, very good presentation, well paced and uses review to very good effect (from a training point of view). I also learnt two Knots that I had not used before as 'promised' in the introduction. So very well done . Bye Duncan
As someone who is starting out sailing on a hobie 17 you are a LIFE SAVER
Such a great video. I use these knots all the time. Thank you!!
This was super informative and very easy to understand! Thank you!!!
The Zeppelin just became my new favourite know, thanks!!!
Your demonstration on tying knots are simple which I appreciate 🙏
Ive been looking at knots clips and this is the best i have seen. You answered a couple of glitches i was having with getting it right sometime s andd sometimes 'knot'. Well done
Very well explained! I learned something new today, thank you!
Excellent! I'm trying to secure an awning across a patio with nylon rope. I will definitely try one of these knots
Such an easy and great video! I learnt them all and thank you.
Thank you very much for these videos. I have tried mastering some of these knots in the past, but it was a fruitless endeavor. However, your videos make it the knots seem possible to learn.
Thanks for this, you show different methods of tying common knots. Never seen a bowline done the second way. Thanks
Im a scout leader and the Knot Head of our troop.
I appreciate that you give the student the name and the purpose of the knot. This isnt done often enough in scouts. The scout only wants to learn how to tie a knot and get it signed off in his book.
I teach the eight required knots and many others.
I would expect sailors to use two half hitches, a carrok bend, "a loop with two half hitches", a stevedore knot and a "constrictor" knot. I have learned that climbers often use a knot that is like overlapping figure eights to join ropes.
Keep preaching the rope work gospel. Rope is an incredibly important tool.
Thanks so much for this post. This is a weak link in my toolbox. I like your teaching style/ ability.
Hi Emily, thanks for highlighting the Zeppelin Knot. I've usually always used a Rethreaded Figure Eight with stopper knots but it takes time to tie and it's bulky. I hadn't thought about the Zeppelin Knot for a long time but since watching your video I've started using it more.
It's fast to tie and secure as you said. Again Thanks!!!
I have always used a "Rethreaded " figure 8 in climbing. Say you want to attach two ropes together for a long rappel. Much safer knot, and my life has depended on it a few times.
Neat video! I have a book on knots and you explain it better than they did on two knots. I'd prefer the double sheet bend to connect two ropes, but I also like this zepplin one. I love the bowline one and I don't know why. its so simple
I taught college class on marlinspike seamanship. So dazzle me, haha! Always enjoy others teaching knot tying. Thanks! At end of 9 week class, each had a goodie bag of special tools made during class. Interviewing, everyone but one owned their own sailboats. You did amaze me with zeplin knot. I have a 3rd bowline knot to save you, after falling overboard. (So you don't tie double half hitch around you, then killing you tightening up). Imagine husband throwing you a rope while your in water. Rope passes you on your right side. Bring bitter end rope around you. Throw bitter end of rope an about a foot rope, over rope from boat. Grab 2 ropes together with one hand palm down against 2 ropes. Now with hand twist (going down an around) still holding both ropes around each other to create a loop, bring end around through loop too create a bowling around you so you don't die being squeezed. Practice until you get the bowling. Then practice for more speed for emergencies. This knot has saved lives for me.
Great video! The Alpine Butterfly and Zeppelin bend are my two new favorite knots, thanks!
The more you use the alpine butterfly the more will wonder how you did without it
I like the double hitch knot and timber hitch knots, I'm a woodsman and they are very handy in the bush
just learned two new knots! thanks...
What an outstanding video!!
Very cool video. Thank you for posting.
Great tutorial! I'm hoping to get a position working on a boat and this video helped big time!
After caring far too much for knots and learning far too many of them to be usefull... I have to admit that your selection is just right. All your knots work great and are just good in general. Two little remarks:
1. The clove hitch works really well when used correctly. If you have no load on the line and much movement, it will loosen itself and become undone. For that case you need another knot (or, like you have shown, some additional securing)
2. On the outtro "Identify the knot" picture, there is the Hunters knot shown and identified as Zeppelin bend.
Helpful video and wonderful music!
Excellent knot tying class.
Great, clear presentation!
Thank you for taking the time to share these knots.
You're welcome Murry
Didn't know the Alpine butterfly, cool, thanks!
I didn't know how to do the zeppelin knot and I just love how it works! Thank you
Very nicely done presentation for clarity. Congrats. Its wonderful to see useful advice out there but without clarity theres no point. Look forwardto seeing more
Alex,
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