Most useful Knots on board a vessel

try a Yosemite bowline

A stage hitch it is. As cadets we would stand on one end while the stage was rotated so we could start painting the next fleet.

It takes an uncommon strain to jam a bowline but the version you mention which I would say belongs to the slippery knot family is a handy finish to other knots as well.

Gut Knot

There’s an Android app called Knots 3d. Good for boating, fishing, and climbing. I highly recommend.

For anyone truly serious about knots, The Ashley Book of Knots is the ultimate reference. It contains 3900 of them with illustrations and comments.

Work Boot Lace Knot

Bowline
Clove Hitch
Sheet bend
Square Knot
Timber Hitch
Trucker Hitch.
Those are my go-to’s
Oh and the Might Knot.

That’s perfect! Well played. . .

From what I see nowadays, the whatknot

bowline, clove, and truckers

Start ck…

You forgot the will knot.

It works ! If you cannot tie a knot tie a lot.

It figures that reprobates from the black gang would come up with such a ridiculous concept. Ya’ll ought to be made to unravel your own Gordian messes. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

The Ancient Gordian Knot was solved by a sword, many centuries ago. Read it in my folks encyclodias well before I a gave a crap or knew the context of bad knots. I carried that concept many years later when the guy that tied the knot had no idea how to undo it. Serrated knife of course. Swords are not allowed anymore.

encyclopedias

The bosun on my first ship called my first attempt with a heaving line a hatchet knot. As in “tie a hatchet to that messenger line as they’re gonna need it to undo that sh*t.”