Heaving line bend

Heaving line bend
Names Heaving line bend, messenger-line bend
Category Bend
Related Sheet bend, Racking bend
Typical use To attach a lightweight line to a heavier line
ABoK #1463

The heaving line bend is a knot dubiously presented as supposedly bending a smaller line (a "messenger" line --of which a heaving line will be the first of possibly multiple, being light enough to be projected) to a larger line to be brought across some span. This particular knot gained its name and was put forwards to assume this role after a comical mistake in illustration. Hjalmar Ohrvall found the knot in a museum on a Japanese shamisen (banjo-like, 3-stringed instrument); in his 1916, enlarged edition of Om Knutar, his daughter mis-drew the knot with a crossing at the top of the hitched-to bight of the larger material. Presumably, Ashley et al. --though it is hard to excuse Swedish Sam Svensson, here!-- saw only the mistaken image and presumed the function of the knot. Whether it has ever seen actual nautical use is a fair question --it is there for the taking, but is also of a rather insecure/instable nature for doing serious work such as pulling a line through heavy seas. It is knot number 1463 in The Ashley Book of Knots,[1] and appeared in the 1916 Swedish knot manual Om Knutar.[2]


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References

  1. ↑ Ashley, Clifford W. (1944). The Ashley Book of Knots. Doubleday.
  2. ↑ Budworth, Geoffrey (2000). The complete book of sailing knots : stoppers, bindings and shortenings, single, double and triple loops, bends, hitches, other useful knots. New York, NY: Lyons Press. p. 92. ISBN 1585740675. Retrieved 22 April 2016.


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