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    Hi guys, just wondering if anyone can put a name to this knot? I was taught it when I was sailing a while ago, but I was never given a name for it. It is essentially a bunch or round turns with the tail tied with two half hitches. It functions as a slide and grip knot/ adjustable loop.

    Seems to work better than a midshipmans hitch, tautline hitch, blakes hitch or similar. I cant reliably get any of them to work in the rope I use for tarp lines, but this unnamed knot seems to work, but I havent field tested it yet. If anyone can suggest any other knots that will give a slide and grip/adjustable loop, that work in rather slippery paracordesque rope, then please give me a shout because Im sick of using truckies hitches on every line and having to retie them with each adjustment.

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    looks like maybe an improved clinch knot to me, used for fishing. and an improvement over the original cinch knot by passing the tag end back up and through the last loop after the spirals around the running line.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rocketsocks View Post
    looks like maybe an improved clinch knot to me, used for fishing. and an improvement over the original cinch knot by passing the tag end back up and through the last loop after the spirals around the running line.
    upon further inspection I see a larger view now and not sure what to make of the half hitch to finish it....so in answer to your question...Nope, not sure what it is.

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    I havent the foggiest idea myself, and the fella that tought me it never had a name for it either. But it seems to be one of the simplest sldie and grip knots out and seems to hold easily in line that other knots dont. Im itching to rig a tarp with one sides lines as the above knot, and then the other side as either blakes hitches or truckies hitches to compare their performance under a shifting wind load.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Size12 View Post
    Hi guys, just wondering if anyone can name to this knot?
    Bob. I name it Bob!

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    P.S. Looks like a good knot to know, so thanks for sharing it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HeartFire View Post
    ...of sorts, yes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rain Man View Post
    Bob. I name it Bob!

    Just a little Sunday morning humor before church. LOL

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    P.S. Looks like a good knot to know, so thanks for sharing it.
    Reminds me of the fella who sowed his wild oats all week and went to church on Sunday to pray for a crop failure...you are forgiven.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HeartFire View Post
    definitely a taut line hitch but with extra hitches added.. I guess you could call it a modified taut line hitch. To the OP...If it works then it's a "good" knot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by moytoy View Post
    definitely a taut line hitch but with extra hitches added.. I guess you could call it a modified taut line hitch. To the OP...If it works then it's a "good" knot.
    ...and inverted from the traditional. Samme same though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rocketsocks View Post
    ...and inverted from the traditional. Samme same though.
    Yep... I was wondering if the inverted hitch might make the knot more difficult to adjust.
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    Quote Originally Posted by moytoy View Post
    Yep... I was wondering if the inverted hitch might make the knot more difficult to adjust.
    hmm, yeah it is kinda jammed in there under a load..cool knot.

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    Ya knoooow

    if we could put a proper name to it, we could then list it's history, and milk this thread for at least a couple more pages...before we start in ta arguing on the best knots.

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    yeah, but we got 3 more posts outta it.

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    Id differ on the opinion that its of relation to a taut line. Its formed completely differently and is hitched off in a different place. Tautline hitches off around the rope it is being tied to. This one hitches off to itself (the rope it is being tied from). Hitches off in a slightly ugly manner, and I think might need a stopper after the 2 half hitches to stop it untying over time (in the rope Im using anyway).

    Seems like it grips tighter than a tautline, midshipmansor blakes hitch etc and might bind more, but In that respect it makes it actually work in the nasty cheap thin polypropylene cord I use.

    And from now on Im referring to it at bob.

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    Looks to be in the same slip-and-grip family as the Prusik, the Klemheist, the Bachmann, and the Machard. But it isn't any of them exactly. I don't know a name for that one in particular.
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    Mystery solved. Hikes in rain is dead on. It definitely seems to be a pipe hitch! I knew it had to have a name somewhere!

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