{"id":2277,"date":"2021-03-08T12:26:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2021-03-08T12:26:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:26:38","slug":"nautical-terminator-hitch-bend-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/nautical-terminator\/nautical-terminator-hitch-bend-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Nautical Terminator – Hitch & Bend (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I think I know what a splice is, and I\u2019m sort of willing for the time being, subject to further review, to use the word \u201cknot\u201d to describe any jumble of rope made intentionally or otherwise. But of the two species of knots named \u201chitches\u201d and \u201cbends,\u201d what\u2019s the difference? A little research uncovers some complexity here, as well as some interpretations too muddled to repeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            In all matters knotical (not a real\nword, I\u2019m sorry to report) our best authority absent a solid countervailing\nreason is The<\/em> Ashley Book of Knots<\/em>. Clifford Ashley was a seaman from the fabled\nwhaling port of New Bedford, Massachusetts who devoted his life to the study of\nknots used by a wide variety of professionals from the journeyman to the joker.\nSome are safe, some dangerous, and some downright homicidal (the knots, not the\njokers, although we can\u2019t rule that out).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            His definitions of the items in\nquestion: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            ABOK#12: \u201cA hitch makes a rope fast\nto another object.\u201d In Chapter 20 he elaborates: \u201cA hitch is a complication\nthat secures a rope to another object, generally of a different nature. But\nthis is not necessarily so, since the object may be another rope, provided the\nhitch is made entirely with the active<\/em>\nrope, and the second rope remains inactive<\/em>.\u201d\n[Italics mine.] <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            ABOK#13: \u201cA bend unites two ropes.\u201d\nIn chapter 18, Ashley further explains that generally a bend unites two ropes\n\u201cat the ends,\u201d and its purpose is \u201cto lengthen the rope.\u201d He adds, \u201cBends for\ntying two ends of different characteristics may partake somewhat of the nature\nof a hitch, since one rope is more active<\/em>\nthan the other.\u201d [Italics mine.] <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            By tradition, the anchor rode is\nalways \u201cbent\u201d to its anchor, and a sail to its spar, no matter what type of\nattachment is utilized, be it knot, shackle, hank, or slide. As a result there\nis a knot called an Anchor Bend, also known as a Fisherman\u2019s Bend, which\nactually fits the above definition of a hitch since it \u201cmakes a rope fast to\nanother object.\u201d Ashley notes in ABOK#24-26 that this knot is really a hitch\nand that with this and three other arcane exceptions, \u201call knots called bends\nare for lengthening rope, by tying two ends together.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            More next time on hitches, bends, the\n\u201cactive\u201d principle, Clifford Ashley, and the art of knotery (alas, also not a\nreal word).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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