Ben
Great link although I don’t have a smart phone or cell. Wife gives me her cell when I’m traveling:shock: But about knots–from a background of climbing and teaching off shore sailing at the Naval Academy–IMHO there are only a few of those bends in the line you need for most outdoor activities and they must be learned from what I call the touch the line feel the line method. In other words you can tie the knot in the dark, blind folded, in a storm, hanging on the side of a cliff or trying to get up the rigging and repair as it collapses. Example–most folks can tie the bowline–can you tie it around someone, around yourself and in the conditions stated above? Believe the only way to be competent is to learn the few knots needed by feel and muscle memory. No app can teach that. My list of required knots for off shore sailing, and most situations that we will find ourselves in (not including rescue ops) are: figure 8, prussic, bowline, square, rolling hitch, good old overhand or figure4. Those few pretty much cover the basics of tying lines together or to something or adjusting length. Although I would love to know how to throw a diamond hitch–never did learn that but then I run dogsleds not horses or camels. But great link–I will study it:D
Semper Fi
Mike
