title: Skipper's Knot Guide: Knots, Bends, Hitches and Splices
author: Heinrich Bauermeister
description: <span><span><span>This book should be on board so when your 'guests' start talking about sailors knots you can just toss it at them and tell them to study! This is a reference book, but it shows a sailor, using clear photos, just how to tie the knots that all sailors should know. It's easy to follow and very simple for all to use. </span></span></span> (<i>Latitudes &amp; Attitudes</i>)<br /><br /><span><span><span>A portable, waterproof, quick reference guide to 40 essential knots. </span></span></span> (<i>Wooden Boat</i>)
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  CHAPTER 1: ON KNOTS 
  Of Knots, it is necessary that I speak . .. 
  A NAVAL REPOSITORY, 1762 
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  The sailor, from the very nature of his craft, has a dependence 
  u on rope and a consequent familiarity with knots that is demanded 
  o no other workman. It follows that most important knots owe both 
  their origin and their names to the requirements of a ship at sea. So 
  diverse are these requirements that the number of knots devised by 
  the sailor is probably ten times greater than the sum of all other 
  handicrafts combined. Nor is this surprising if we consider that on a 
  full-rigged ship, in everyday use, are several miles of rigging, and 
  an able seaman, of necessity, is acquainted with every inch of this 
  extent. 
  Knotting has been an important adjunct to the everyday life of all 
  people from the earliest days of which we have knowledge. There are 
  still primitive races who fasten their huts, traps, canoes, and harness