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!
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
Thanks for the information! I recently went on my first sailing trip--a passage to Bermuda from Falmouth, Maine and got to use the Zeppelin Knot when a lobster trap got entangled with our anchor chain while taking a break in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The trap line was so entangled that I had to cut it and then I patched it back together using this knot.
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
Thank you. Two knots now come even easier to me. I think most people really don't know much about knots, and your effort actually improves that a little bit!
The bowline is the knot of all knots, I use that one 99% of the time at work. And I must agree with these 5 knots and once you've made them a 1000 times it's muscle memory and they'll never go wrong again. I do have to disagree with tying a dingy to a dingy dock, I prefer to use a chain with a good lock there. Great informative video!
@@Clarks-Adventure Then you are in a good spot. My only experience are in northern Europe and the southern part of the Caribbean, there it's lock it or lose it.
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.
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.
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.
Great video but a clove hitch is knot secure if there is going to be any bouncing of the dinghy due to wind and waves. I once had to swim 200 yards to ashore from an anchorage in 48 degree water to retrieve my dinghy on a bumpy night. A bowline or a cleat hitch would have saved me from this cold swim. The extra knot she said wasn’t really needed would also probably worked. I have seen simple clove hitches release many times due to bouncing.
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!!
Great video! Thanks!! And here's a handy tip: Always leave long tails on your sheet stopper knots. If the stopper knot gets jammed really hard into a block, then you have a long tail to pull on to free it. If the knot is jammed right up to the block without a tail? It can be really hard to get a good grip on that little nub of a knot to pull it out. 🙂
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!
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!
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.
I've been using a bowline for over 50 years it is one of my go-to's. "when the rabbit goes down the hole" "I double it back and it sits at the entrance" thus creating a quick release. make sure to leave enough rope out to grip a sharp tug and waaahlaaah it is undone. when working with horses and animals under tension some knots are imposible to untie, this quick release saved my bacon from distressed horses and animals plus saved lots of time while at sea or on land hauling and tying many times over ! I'm glad i 'got knotted' at an early age!!! knowledge is no burden so 'get knotted' !!!! lol great channel keep up the good work , well done and most enjoyable !!
Well done. Well presented. A suggestion for your viewers: leave about a foot of tail in the line between the Figure 8-knot and the end of the line. That will give you a bit of line to pull on (or tie to) if your Figure 8-knot gets jammed into a cleat-fixture.
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'm a whitewater rescue instructor and I'm about to make video to teach my students on specifics knots. I would like to CONGRATULATE you Emily. This video is very well explained, easy to follow, fast markers, great animation, perfect editing, slomo, etc. It look easy and I guess nobody realise all the time required to make theses video. My video won't be as perfect as yours, but you hit my wildest expectation with your work! Alex from Montréal
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.
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.
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.
not me scrolling down hoping there would be more naughty jokes. great job, i will do my best to try and apply these if i remember half of them. simple, easy to explain and no bs. thanks
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.
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! ☺️
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.
I’ll tell ya. This episode was knot for me. A couple of these were knot things I knew. Knot that I mind learning new things. I did try a few of them but wound up being tied into knots. 2 pieces of string were walking down the road one said to the other, let’s go in for a drink. The other said they won’t accept us in there. You’ll sea. He went in and was asked to leave right away. The other had an idea. He twisted himself up and ruffled his hair. When he went in the bartender looked at him and said,”Aren’t you a piece of string?” With a grin he replied,”Nope...I’m a frayed knot!” Sorry. Just had to do that. Great episode. As I’ve said before, I always something watching your videos.
Great explanations! Since I forget things easily, I use simple variations of the figure 8 knot for four of the five applications you mention in this video: as a stopper as you showed, as a loop anywhere in the line, and as a bend for ropes of a similar diameter.
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
In the intro of the video, i was positive that i know them all. At the end, i realized that i know nothing 😅 Awesome tips, thanks and keep on the good work! FW and FW
Very good video. You made it as easy as possible to teach us how to tie those knots. You couldn't have done it any easier. Thank you very much. Please continue to make and post videos. 😊 👍
Nice concise video. Love the slow motion bits. While I agree that a clove hitch is good for many applications such as tying awning down, I'd be hesitant to leave any boat tied to a dock using it. A clove hitch can easily work it's way free if there is wave action, something I have seen occur. I personally go with two round turns and two half hitches whenever tying any kind of boat to a dock. Not only will it not come undone with wave action, one can always untie it, even if it is under load such as when leaving a dock with wind or current pushing you off.
@Sailing_Sea_Dream_of_Clyde= I agree. I have been sailing since the age of eight, and when working in the North Sea (at age 33) I had to tie a Zodiac to the ladder of a Supply vessel. I was in a hurry and used a clove hitch ; it went untied, and a sailor from the Supply saw this and went to retrieve the Zodiac. I could’nt have felt more ashamed!
One of the clearest and concise knot tying videos I've seen. I spent a few years restoring and sailing an old Glouchester schooner back in the 70's and learned a whole bunch of knots as well as how to splice but the alpine butterfly is a new one for me. Good one to know! And the criteria of being able to easily undo them after sometimes extreme pressure can't be overstated. We used to call the typical landlubber's knots hatchet knots because that's the only way you could get them undone after extreme tension was put on them! But I'll trade you for the alpine butterfly and give you one other to add to your collection called a rolling hitch. It has a very specific purpose that's not needed very often but when you do you'll be glad to know it. Perhaps the best way to describe it in words is to look at the picture of the clove hitch at the end of this video. Note that the direction of pull is basically perpendicular the post or whatever the line is tied to. In the picture the line is facing down, but imagine if the direction of pull was facing right, or running the same direction as the post or spar and you need a knot that won't slip along the post or spar. The rolling hitch is essentially the same as a clove hitch except you do two wraps around the post in the direction of the pull before crossing over to tie it off. Again looking at the picture at the end of the video and imagine the pull of the line was to the right along the length of the post you'd see two wraps around the post to the right before the line crosses over... I hope that's clear?
Thank you Eric, Yes I agree the rolling hitch is an important one to know. We mention it in this old video. ua-cam.com/video/s38sH_gueew/v-deo.html where we use it to create an anchor line snubber.
@@Clarks-Adventure Ah yes I should have known you would know that one. While on board that schooner I also came up with an alternate, super quick no-brainer way to tie a bowline. I could never get it straight which direction was "out" of the hole for the rabbit... Took too much time to think about. A wee bit hard to explain using just words but giving it my best shot... Make a loop in the line so the bitter end of the line is crossing over the top of the standing end at 90 degrees. Then grab the standing end and twist it upward right where the bitter end crosses over making a loop in the standing end. If you do it right the rabbit will have automatically poked it head through the hole in the right direction. Then it's just a matter of having him (or her) run around the "tree" and back down the hole. Super easy and quick once you get it. Best part is it eliminates all the thinking...
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
The one I use most is the bowline, or at least it was when I was an orthopedic technician and traction was still an important part of post-fracture care. But my favorite is the sheetbend, which is used instead of the Zeppelin Bend, when the lines are of different diameters. It's sort of half a Zeppelin. It serves its purpose so well that the wedding rings I designed using it have kept the First Mate and me together for 54 years on the 27th.
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.
Thanks Emily. Well demonstrated. A knot that I use to start a whipping or to attach a lead line is the constrictor knot. Also called the "beer bottle" knot since it won't come undone and leave your beer on the bottom.
The constrictor knot is the one I use most frequently. Of course, it fails Emily's 'must be easy to undo' rule. But it serves well as a whipping all by itself, can be cut off close after thoroughly tightened, and won't let you down.
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.
Clove Hitch Failure. I got back to the boat later in the evening and tied the dink using a clove hitch using an older braided line that was wet. Lots of dew that night. With the dink pulling intermittently it worked the clove hitch loose. Wind took the dink out to sea but I did recover it 3 weeks later and 80 miles away. (a long story) LESSON: Clove hitches come loose if there is a cycle of yank then release. I still use clove hitches either where there is a constant pressure or if it is a temporary hold for my dink. Still have the same dink 24 years later ;-) Thanks for the video. I've just picked up an attitude about clove hitches.
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.
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!
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Best tutorial ever. Clear and to the point. No blablablabla
just learned two new knots! thanks...
Begining sailor here, thanks a lot for this video, I will be practicing each of these daily until they are second nature.
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!
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.
@@Clarks-Adventure Right. TY old guy trying to keep ☝. Thanks for your time to educate
Well done.
THANK YOU WITH CAPITAL LETTERS
Just learned all these knots tonight and you had the best presentation / explanation. Kick-ass.
This video goes up there with the best of the best boating videos...
Thanks.
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Thanks for the information! I recently went on my first sailing trip--a passage to Bermuda from Falmouth, Maine and got to use the Zeppelin Knot when a lobster trap got entangled with our anchor chain while taking a break in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The trap line was so entangled that I had to cut it and then I patched it back together using this knot.
Every sailor is happy when his first mate has mad skills like this!
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
Thank you. Two knots now come even easier to me. I think most people really don't know much about knots, and your effort actually improves that a little bit!
The bowline is the knot of all knots, I use that one 99% of the time at work. And I must agree with these 5 knots and once you've made them a 1000 times it's muscle memory and they'll never go wrong again.
I do have to disagree with tying a dingy to a dingy dock, I prefer to use a chain with a good lock there.
Great informative video!
All depends on where you live. I use a lock and cable in Florida. Here it's not an issue.
@@Clarks-Adventure Then you are in a good spot. My only experience are in northern Europe and the southern part of the Caribbean, there it's lock it or lose it.
The "Zeppelin Knot" was new to me. Thanks a lot!
*"Zeppelin Bend"
(Quite funny, as I am a German ^^)
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.
Thanx a lot. It was excellent for beginer like me
You're very welcome Suhas. Glad it helped
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.
Your channel rocks, we share these tutorials with inexperienced friends and swabbies we have aboard.
Thanks
Good stuff... thanks Emily
Great video but a clove hitch is knot secure if there is going to be any bouncing of the dinghy due to wind and waves. I once had to swim 200 yards to ashore from an anchorage in 48 degree water to retrieve my dinghy on a bumpy night. A bowline or a cleat hitch would have saved me from this cold swim. The extra knot she said wasn’t really needed would also probably worked. I have seen simple clove hitches release many times due to bouncing.
Another good video, I just purchased a 30' Sea Ray Sundancer, this video is very helpful.
Thanks again.
Glad to see you are going through our old stuff. Enjoy.
And enjoy your new boat!
I just came for the music :). Thanks for the knots. Now to practice....
Excellent. Thanks.
Best 5 knot lesson I've seen in a while.
So many ways to tie a bowline though.
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 :)
The butterfly and 2 fishies knots are awesome!
Thank you for these easy to remember instructions. Too, Love the bowline rhymie about the tree and the rabbit! Yay!
Thanks so much for this post. This is a weak link in my toolbox. I like your teaching style/ ability.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Your very welcome
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!!
Great video! Thanks!! And here's a handy tip: Always leave long tails on your sheet stopper knots. If the stopper knot gets jammed really hard into a block, then you have a long tail to pull on to free it. If the knot is jammed right up to the block without a tail? It can be really hard to get a good grip on that little nub of a knot to pull it out. 🙂
Amazing. Thank you. I’m a noob with lengths of line to practice in my living room. You’re nice to watch.
The Zeppelin just became my new favourite know, thanks!!!
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!
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 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.
You have the best how to steps for knots thank you just learnkng to sail and your slow steps that are clear to see are perfect
I've been using a bowline for over 50 years it is one of my go-to's. "when the rabbit goes down the hole" "I double it back and it sits at the entrance" thus creating a quick release. make sure to leave enough rope out to grip a sharp tug and waaahlaaah it is undone. when working with horses and animals under tension some knots are imposible to untie, this quick release saved my bacon from distressed horses and animals plus saved lots of time while at sea or on land hauling and tying many times over ! I'm glad i 'got knotted' at an early age!!! knowledge is no burden so 'get knotted' !!!! lol great channel keep up the good work , well done and most enjoyable !!
Thanks. Good point.
That butterfly knot tie! 🤯 NICE ONE!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Y'all are the best. Thanks for making videos.
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
love the simplicity of explanation
Thanks Maritza
Thanks for this, you show different methods of tying common knots. Never seen a bowline done the second way. Thanks
Well done. Well presented.
A suggestion for your viewers: leave about a foot of tail in the line between the Figure 8-knot and the end of the line. That will give you a bit of line to pull on (or tie to) if your Figure 8-knot gets jammed into a cleat-fixture.
Good idea
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'm a whitewater rescue instructor and I'm about to make video to teach my students on specifics knots.
I would like to CONGRATULATE you Emily. This video is very well explained, easy to follow, fast markers, great animation, perfect editing, slomo, etc.
It look easy and I guess nobody realise all the time required to make theses video.
My video won't be as perfect as yours, but you hit my wildest expectation with your work!
Alex from Montréal
hey Alex, cite Emily's channel in your video
@@malcolmbythelee I will, but unfortunately, my viewvers will be french speakers.
Your demonstration on tying knots are simple which I appreciate 🙏
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.
Thank you for taking the time to share these knots.
You're welcome Murry
That's brilliant of tieing knots demo.thankyou Robert.
Well done video on what I agree are the basic knots any boaters needs to know!
Excellent! I'm trying to secure an awning across a patio with nylon rope. I will definitely try one of these knots
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.
Don't kow if anyone else has mentioned this Emily - you make easy to understand and well paced instructional videos! :)
Thanks, guys.
Emily, you rock!
I'd never seen the zeppelin - awesome. 👏🏻
That was awesome. Love the way you delivered the instructions lass 😃
Thank you Emily! Love and Light.
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.
Thanks, Emily! This was awesome, the way you told it to us. I know my knots finally, yeah!
You're welcome Ed.
You might like some of our other videos.
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@@Clarks-Adventure holy cow, this is some great stuff, will definitely check those out, thanks!
Maybe even subscribe and share the links with friends? It would help us out.
@@Clarks-Adventure Absolutely will do
not me scrolling down hoping there would be more naughty jokes. great job, i will do my best to try and apply these if i remember half of them. simple, easy to explain and no bs. thanks
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.
super nice! Thanks
You're welcome Alan
I'd never heard of the Zeppelin knot, everything else very well explained.
Subscribed.
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! ☺️
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
Brilliant tutorial! As a newbie sailor, I need to learn these 5 knots quick sharp! Thank you.
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.
Superb video. Been out of sailing for years and its good to refresh from somneone who knows what they're doing. Thanks.
I’ll tell ya. This episode was knot for me. A couple of these were knot things I knew. Knot that I mind learning new things. I did try a few of them but wound up being tied into knots.
2 pieces of string were walking down the road one said to the other, let’s go in for a drink. The other said they won’t accept us in there. You’ll sea. He went in and was asked to leave right away. The other had an idea. He twisted himself up and ruffled his hair. When he went in the bartender looked at him and said,”Aren’t you a piece of string?” With a grin he replied,”Nope...I’m a frayed knot!”
Sorry. Just had to do that. Great episode. As I’ve said before, I always something watching your videos.
Bob Uncle, you are sick. LOL.
@@normanacree1635 knot that I’m aware of🤔
Great explanations! Since I forget things easily, I use simple variations of the figure 8 knot for four of the five applications you mention in this video: as a stopper as you showed, as a loop anywhere in the line, and as a bend for ropes of a similar diameter.
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
Awesome! Learning the alpine butterfly felt like learning a magic trick :D
Came for a refresher on knots and stayed for capable cruiser course. Very impressed with how you present the content !
In the intro of the video, i was positive that i know them all.
At the end, i realized that i know nothing 😅
Awesome tips, thanks and keep on the good work!
FW and FW
There's something inspiring in just how into knots you are! Wonderfully relaxing and clear video
First time been able to understand Bowline thankyou esp V 2 also helps to use U tube slow mode Thank you
As someone who is starting out sailing on a hobie 17 you are a LIFE SAVER
Another good knot to tie two lines together is a lovers knot that I love.
Nice instructional. Thank you.
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.
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
knots were great, I want or not one thing come to my mind, Hey Clark, congrat for this natural beauty
This is a great video. Wish I could like it twice.
Well, you could always share it on social media???
Very good video. You made it as easy as possible to teach us how to tie those knots. You couldn't have done it any easier. Thank you very much. Please continue to make and post videos. 😊 👍
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Best explanation I’ve ever seen, thank you!
Am an arborist I use all those knots daily there good knots always waited to get into sailing
As a scout leader and dreaming of sailing, I see this as a win! 😊
Thanks.
Pass the link to your scouts please
Excellent description. Easier to understand.
Nice technique, nice presentation, nice demonstration, nice explanation. Very well done. Thank You.
Thanks, it was a pleasure to watch and learn!
Nice concise video. Love the slow motion bits. While I agree that a clove hitch is good for many applications such as tying awning down, I'd be hesitant to leave any boat tied to a dock using it. A clove hitch can easily work it's way free if there is wave action, something I have seen occur. I personally go with two round turns and two half hitches whenever tying any kind of boat to a dock. Not only will it not come undone with wave action, one can always untie it, even if it is under load such as when leaving a dock with wind or current pushing you off.
@Sailing_Sea_Dream_of_Clyde= I agree. I have been sailing since the age of eight, and when working in the North Sea (at age 33) I had to tie a Zodiac to the ladder of a Supply vessel. I was in a hurry and used a clove hitch ; it went untied, and a sailor from the Supply saw this and went to retrieve the Zodiac. I could’nt have felt more ashamed!
One of the clearest and concise knot tying videos I've seen. I spent a few years restoring and sailing an old Glouchester schooner back in the 70's and learned a whole bunch of knots as well as how to splice but the alpine butterfly is a new one for me. Good one to know! And the criteria of being able to easily undo them after sometimes extreme pressure can't be overstated. We used to call the typical landlubber's knots hatchet knots because that's the only way you could get them undone after extreme tension was put on them! But I'll trade you for the alpine butterfly and give you one other to add to your collection called a rolling hitch. It has a very specific purpose that's not needed very often but when you do you'll be glad to know it. Perhaps the best way to describe it in words is to look at the picture of the clove hitch at the end of this video. Note that the direction of pull is basically perpendicular the post or whatever the line is tied to. In the picture the line is facing down, but imagine if the direction of pull was facing right, or running the same direction as the post or spar and you need a knot that won't slip along the post or spar. The rolling hitch is essentially the same as a clove hitch except you do two wraps around the post in the direction of the pull before crossing over to tie it off. Again looking at the picture at the end of the video and imagine the pull of the line was to the right along the length of the post you'd see two wraps around the post to the right before the line crosses over... I hope that's clear?
Thank you Eric,
Yes I agree the rolling hitch is an important one to know. We mention it in this old video. ua-cam.com/video/s38sH_gueew/v-deo.html where we use it to create an anchor line snubber.
@@Clarks-Adventure Ah yes I should have known you would know that one. While on board that schooner I also came up with an alternate, super quick no-brainer way to tie a bowline. I could never get it straight which direction was "out" of the hole for the rabbit... Took too much time to think about. A wee bit hard to explain using just words but giving it my best shot... Make a loop in the line so the bitter end of the line is crossing over the top of the standing end at 90 degrees. Then grab the standing end and twist it upward right where the bitter end crosses over making a loop in the standing end. If you do it right the rabbit will have automatically poked it head through the hole in the right direction. Then it's just a matter of having him (or her) run around the "tree" and back down the hole. Super easy and quick once you get it. Best part is it eliminates all the thinking...
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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The one I use most is the bowline, or at least it was when I was an orthopedic technician and traction was still an important part of post-fracture care. But my favorite is the sheetbend, which is used instead of the Zeppelin Bend, when the lines are of different diameters. It's sort of half a Zeppelin. It serves its purpose so well that the wedding rings I designed using it have kept the First Mate and me together for 54 years on the 27th.
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.
Thanks Emily. Well demonstrated. A knot that I use to start a whipping or to attach a lead line is the constrictor knot. Also called the "beer bottle" knot since it won't come undone and leave your beer on the bottom.
The constrictor knot is the one I use most frequently. Of course, it fails Emily's 'must be easy to undo' rule. But it serves well as a whipping all by itself, can be cut off close after thoroughly tightened, and won't let you down.
@@Devo491 Isn't a constrictor knot the same as a clove hitch with a different name?
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 like the double hitch knot and timber hitch knots, I'm a woodsman and they are very handy in the bush
Clove Hitch Failure. I got back to the boat later in the evening and tied the dink using a clove hitch using an older braided line that was wet. Lots of dew that night. With the dink pulling intermittently it worked the clove hitch loose. Wind took the dink out to sea but I did recover it 3 weeks later and 80 miles away. (a long story) LESSON: Clove hitches come loose if there is a cycle of yank then release. I still use clove hitches either where there is a constant pressure or if it is a temporary hold for my dink. Still have the same dink 24 years later ;-) Thanks for the video. I've just picked up an attitude about clove hitches.
I’m keeping this video for my next time on the boat 👍
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.
Thank you for a very clear explanation of the knots and their uses
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