Knots

See:

• Fun With Knots Book
• The Cub Book, Pages 100-102

Individual Knot Pages

• Backsplice
• Bowline
• Clove Hitch
• Cobra Weave
• Diagonal Lashing
• Diamond knot
• Eye Splice
• Figure Eight
• Fisherman's Knot
• Friendship Knot
• Fun With Knots Book
• Half Hitch
• Knots
• Monkey's Fist
• Outdoor Adventure Skills Knots
• Overhand Knot
• Prusik knot
• Reef Knot
• Rope Ladder
• Round Turn and Two Half Hitches
• Shear Lashing
• Sheet Bend
• Short Splice
• Square Lashing
• Taut-Line Hitch
• Timber Hitch
• Tripod Lashing
• Trucker's Hitch
• Turk's Head
• Whip

[Outdoor Adventure Skills] Knots

Scoutcraft Skills Stage 1

• 1. I can hang a drying/gear line at camp with a half hitch or other knot.

Scoutcraft Skills Stage 2

• 1. I can tie a reef knot, a round turn and two half-hitch knots.

Scoutcraft Skills Stage 3

• 1. I can tie a half hitch, clove hitch and a fisherman’s knot.

Scoutcraft Skills Stage 4

• 1. As part of a team, I have completed a Scoutcraft project using at least a square lashing to join two poles at right angles.
• 2. I can tie a figure eight, bowline, trucker’s hitch and sheet bend, and whip the end of a rope.

Scoutcraft Skills Stage 5

• 1. I have built a lean-to shelter and an A-frame sleeping tripod shelter, using wood and tied with four lashing knots: square, diagonal, tripod and shear lashings.

Scoutcraft Skills Stage 8

• 1. I can backsplice, short splice and eye splice a three-strand rope.

Sailing Skills Stage 2

• 7. I can demonstrate how to tie reef knot, sheet bend and figure-eight.

Sailing Skills Stage 3

• 8. I can tie the reef knot, sheet bend, figure-eight and bowline used by Scouts when sailing or when camping.

Sailing Skills Stage 4

• 9. I can tie eight knots that are useful when sailing, canoeing or camping.

Vertical Skills Stage 3

• 1. I have correctly tied a figure-8 follow-through knot.

Vertical Skills Stage 5

• 1. I can tie these knots: water (tape), double fishermen’s, prussic, clove hitch and bowline.
• 2. I can coil a climbing rope using a butterfly and a mountaineer method.
• 7. I have constructed and climbed in a “Swiss seat” improvised climbing harness made with tubular or tape webbing.

Vertical Skills Stage 6

• 1. I have tied and used a Munter hitch (also called an Italian hitch) as a belay method.
• 2. I have constructed and used an improvised “Parisian Baudrier” chest harness

Miscellaneous:

• Stopper Knots - Figure-of-Eight Knot, Crown Knot, Overhand Knot, Monkey Fist (Scouting Life, Knot Again; October 2008)
• Gift wrapping, Table setting and more (Scouting Life, Knot Again; November 2008)

Lashings

• The Art of Lashing (The Leader, Knot Again; April 2008)
• Diagonal Lashing, Fun With Knots Book
• Square Lashing, Fun With Knots Book
• Sheer Lashing, Fun With Knots Book
• Tri-Pod Lashing, Fun With Knots Book

Snug Hitch

• Getting Tight with the Snug Hitch (The Leader, Knot Again; January 2008)