Bend (knot)
Appearance
This is a list of types of bend knots. A bend knot is a knot used to join two lengths of rope. Although the reef knot can be used in this way, it is insecure when used as a bend and so is not classed as one.
Types of bend knots
- Adjustable bend
- Albright special
- Alpine butterfly bend
- Ashley's bend
- Beer knot
- Blood knot
- Carrick bend
- Double fisherman's knot
- Fisherman's knot
- Flemish bend
- Harness bend
- Heaving line bend
- Hunter's bend
- Nail knot
- One-sided overhand bend
- Racking bend
- Sheet bend
- Shroud knot
- Simple Simon under
- Single Carrick bend
- Surgeon's knot
- Triple fisherman's knot
- True lover's knot
- Water knot
- Zeppelin bend