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NIOHOLLS'S SEAMANSHIP AND NAUTICAL KNOWLEDGE

A Timber Hitch is a useful way of securing a rope quickly to a plank,
but when there is to be a long and continuous strain, or when it is
required to keep the end of a piece of timber pointed steadily in one
direction, it should be supplemented with a half-hitch (Figs. 23, 24.)

Fig. 24.

The timber hitch itself consists simply of a half hitch taken with a
rather long end, which is used up by twisting it back around its own
part of the hitch. The hitch is purposely left very loose so that its
formation may be the more easily seen in the illustration (Fig. 23).

Fig 25.

Fisherman's Bend.

Fig. 26.

A Fisherman's Bend is formed by taking two round turns around
the object to which the rope is to be secured, and then backing the end
round in the form of a half hitch under both the standing part and
second rottnd' turn. • The end may be further secured by taking a hali
hitch around its own part or by stopping it, to it (Figs. 25, 26), the
dotfeed line showing the next direction the end c must take,
A Blackwall Hitch is a quick way of temporarily securing a rope
to $ hook. As will be g^en from the iUustotion (Fig, 27) it consists of a
IWtf hitch, the standing part ci as soon a$ it receive the* strain jamming
$W*et«l part c. It holds much more firmly than would b$; ipmgiiied at
;icet .afgbfc By taking another round turn at &, before
c under a, ft will hold mote securely. . ^'