Nifty knots that you will find useful when playing outside (and inside) ...
Bottle sling knot:
Tag your beer along with this knot
The resulting knot makes a circle that can be dropped over the top of a bottle. Pulling the bight and the running ends firmly will tighten the knot against the neck of the bottle. Looping the running ends through the bight will make a sling that grips and can be used to lift a glass bottle even if it’s wet. This provides a convenient method of lowering a beverage bottle from a boat into the water to chill. |
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| The knot is begun by making a bight in a piece of rope | ||
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| and folding the bight back on itself to make two separated loops that are mirror images of each other. | ||
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| Lay one loop on top of the other so that they overlap slightly and create a cat’s eye shaped hole above a triangular shaped hole between the two loops. | ||
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| Make a bird’s beak with your index and thumb and weave them down through the top loop, up through the cat’s eye | ||
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| and down through the bottom loop, | ||
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| bunching the coils of rope against your fingers. | ||
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| Pinch the section of rope that was the bottom of the triangle and flip the coils over the pinched section. | ||
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| The flip may take a little practice, but the pinched section should become a short bight hanging off a circular shaped knot. | ||
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