EP19: Cleat Hitch
25 Basic Sailing Knots with Brion Toss Playlist
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Educational, Short Films, Sports, G, 04-Aug-2024
Now we're going to belay to a cleat, another tool designed for belaying, but it only works well if we use it right. Like the Belaying Pin, we want to make sure we go to the far end of the cleat first. You never want to touch the near end first. If you do that, after just one or two contacts, you're going to jam.
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EP20: Lashings
Lashings are a huge family of knots. They're a field expedient way to attach things to each other. People are still tying boats and buildings together using string, essentially. If you do it right, you can do amazing things with lashings. And in the modern rigging world, using high modulus materi...
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EP21: Square Knot
Another ancient favorite, the Square Knot, profoundly useful. But severe limitations. Very dangerous Knot, as you'll see, probably injured and killed more people than all other knots combined. Every tool brings with it an element of risk. This is true of all the knots that we're using. Everything...
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EP22: Good Luck Knot
Turns out somewhere in the world, just about every basic knot is considered a Good Luck Knot. There are very few unlucky knots. The one that people generally agreed was the best Good Luck Knot is the one I'm going to show you. It's from China and it's a simple loop. And it's relatively easy to tie.
