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Required Knots Click link at left for animated knots for Scouts and guides. This link takes you out of Troop 23 Website.

 

Here you will find listed by rank requirements the knots needed and how to tie them.

PARTS OF A ROPE

Knots are formed by using the bight-loop-turn-tuck. Even the most complex knot can be figured out if you remember these terms. 

The bight is formed by laying the end of the rope against the standing part or long end. 

Loops, overhand or underhand, are just what their names say. With these three turns you can make any sort of knot. 

A turn is wrapping the rope around something and a tuck is to insert the running end or bight into a loop

SQUARE KNOT (a joining knot, also known as a Reef Knot) 

 

Whipping, Two Half-Hitches, and the Taught-Line Hitch

REVIEW SQUARE KNOT, WHIPPING, TWO HALF-HITCHES & TAUGHT-LINE HITCH

TIMBER HITCH, CLOVE HITCH, LASHING, BOWLINE, & SHEET BEND

 

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