{"id":2279,"date":"2021-10-11T11:05:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T18:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2021-10-11T11:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T18:06:01","slug":"nautical-terminator-hitch-bend-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/nautical-terminator\/nautical-terminator-hitch-bend-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nautical Terminator – Hitch & Bend (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last time we spoke of the difference between a hitch and a bend according to the Ashley Book of Knots.<\/em> According to Ashley, a hitch makes a rope fast to another object while a bend unites two ropes at the ends for the purpose of lengthening the rope. He adds the refinement that at certain times when two ropes are joined, the knot is still called a hitch because the rope being tied to is not \u201cactive\u201d as it is in a bend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A couple of examples may serve to illustrate this \u201cactive\u201d principle. Although many authorities do not bother with this subtlety, Ashley distinguishes the Sheet Bend<\/em> we all know (ABOK#1431) from the Becket Hitch<\/em> (ABOK#1900) which is exactly the same knot but made fast to an eye splice or the loop in a fishing leader instead of a bight in the second line. In the Becket Hitch the second rope is not \u201cactive\u201d and becomes an \u201cobject\u201d so the knot fits the definition of \u201chitch\u201d in ABOK#12, justifying the difference in name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            A Rolling Hitch (ABOK#1734) can be\nused to make a rope fast to a spar, and is the preferred knot when hoisting a\nroller furling extrusion up the forestay, so in these instances it fits the\ndefinition of a hitch. But of course we also use it to take the strain from a rope\nwhen the end of the second rope is not workable, as in the case of an anchor\nrode or a halyard with an override on a winch. In these cases, even though two\nlines are being \u201cunited,\u201d we are not uniting them at the ends, and the rope we\ntie the rolling hitch to is not \u201cactive.\u201d The result is that even in situations\nwhere two ropes are united using this knot, we call it a Rolling Hitch<\/em> rather than a Rolling Bend.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A tidy example that summarizes the difference between knot, hitch, and bend is the versatile Bowline. If it is just a loop tied in a rope we call it a Bowline Knot <\/em>(ABOK#1010), neither a hitch nor a bend.<\/em> Once we make a line fast to an object using a Bowline it becomes a Bowline Hitch<\/em> (ABOK#1716). However, if we put the loop of one Bowline through the loop of another to join two ropes for the purpose of making a longer one, we have a Bowline Bend<\/em> (ABOK#1455).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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