No waffle. No begging to subscribe. No watch to the end pleading. This is the best clip on youtube

Beautiful. Thanks, and I liked how you’re actually outside with your boat too.

The ONLY REAL HALF HITCH KNOT TUTORIAL ON KZfaq. 💯👌

Perfect demonstration! Clove with a half hitch!

Clearest example I have seen. Thank you!

Thanks for the idea captain bob!

I’m glad I’m not the only one who does this.

Good job old timer. I'd love to talk to you about life back then. Yours seems very interesting.

Short and effective. Thanks Capt.

thanks sooooo much great captain Bob ... helpful & simple

Hey thank you Captain Bob!!...You rock buddy!

Great video captain bob

ty. Never trusted the clove hitch, but now I can.

Thanks Captain Bob!

Thank you. Good job on the video!

Love your videos, Capitain Bob! Thank you for taking the time. We sail a 1967 Bristol Corinthian 19 and just got a Cape Dory 25. Waiting for better winds in August to launch it (we are in the Chilean central coast). So far this winter has been pretty nasty.

thanks captain Bob!

Thanks captain Bob 👨‍✈️!

Thanks! Very helpful

Wish I'd watched these videos before I had to do them on a boat for the first time!

Hello Captain Bob, this and all your other videos are easy to follow along and I can do the knots. Thank you, so far I feel comfortable with the square knot, sheet bend, clove hitch and figure eight. Can you please recommend what other knots I should try?

U the man bob

Thank you for sharing

Cheers Bob :)

Captain Bob is the shiz- nit!!!

Perfect 😍

needed for Boy Scouts Thanks a lot!!!

Legend

Thanks

Nice.

Thank you Captain Bob!

A half hitch to the rail also works to back up a clove hitchg

Thanks for the video. Why would I not just use two half hitches? I have heard the advantage of the clove hitch, for fenders at least, is the ease of adjusting the height of the fender. With the half hitch added, you seem to lose that advantage.

Would this be useful to temporarily hold dock lines from a 50' yacht to the dock before the final tying location is set? I am often the one jumping to the dock and grabbing lines/pulling the boat closer in before my FIL or hubby jumps down and puts the ropes in their final secure location and ties them off. I usually just throw the lines under the bull rail (very large bull rails here in Alaska) and hope the boat holds its position while I grab other lines or wait for one of the guys to tie them off. Thanks much😁!

That's my pa:)

Can also tie the half hitch around the rail too

Clove hitch with a safety knot is what it's called in the fire department. Safety knots are used on everything

Old man and the sea

Layk

1:10 Improved version

If you pull one half hitch through the other before you tighten the knot you will not need to add your half hitch.

Would this be able to support 200 pounds?

So the half hitch makes the clove hitch more secure?

Should have shown it from the other side i.e. from the side where you would be standing when you use the knot

"However it has two giant faults, it slips (loosens up)" Okay, that's one; what's the other? ;-)

No lie, I tied a clove hitch to a limb the other day. Then thought that the rocking of the boat may loosen the knot so I backed it up with a half hitch... Hard to re-event something that's already known doh.

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