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Rope & Knots.

Practice with unloaded rope. Learn what each knot is suited to hold.

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Rope & Knots

⚠ Specialist review needed

Rope and Pulley Lifting

Understand mechanical advantage with an unloaded or very light tabletop model.

Beginner30 minutes

Rope & Knots

Bowline

Tie a fixed loop for ordinary non-critical practice and inspect its collar.

Beginner15 minutes

Rope & Knots

Trucker’s Hitch

Learn a tensioning arrangement using a loop, a return, and a separate tie-off.

Intermediate15 minutes

Rope & Knots

⚠ Specialist review needed

Tripod Lashing

Build a small non-load-bearing tripod to understand wraps, fraps, and spreading legs.

Intermediate30 minutes

Rope & Knots

Overhand and Figure Eight

Compare a simple overhand stopper with a dressed figure-eight stopper on practice cord.

Beginner20 minutes

Rope & Knots

Square Knot and Sheet Bend

Distinguish a square knot for bundling from a sheet bend for joining two noncritical cord ends.

Beginner20 minutes

Rope & Knots

Clove and Timber Hitches

Compare a clove hitch on a post with a timber hitch around a practice bundle.

Beginner20 minutes

Rope & Knots

Taut-Line and Rolling Hitches

Study an adjustable guyline hitch beside a rolling hitch that grips along another line.

Beginner20 minutes

Rope & Knots

Two Half Hitches and Constrictor

Compare an attachment made with two half hitches to a constrictor used for binding an object.

Beginner20 minutes

Rope & Knots

Coiling and Whipping

Coil clean cord without hidden twists and bind a fraying end with a simple whipping.

Beginner20 minutes

Rope & Knots

⚠ Specialist review needed

Square Diagonal and Shear Lashings

Identify square, diagonal and shear lashings by the way two small spars meet in an unloaded model.

Beginner20 minutes

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