KNOTS? not knots...LOL

[casinoreverend]

:hello:

I've got my boat stabbed into a slip on a local river system, the last occupant left a couple old lines to tie off with. I bought all new lines, whats the best KNOT to tie off to a ring>? Theres no cleats, just metal rings-4 of them to be exact

any ideas, pictures would be GREAT!

thanks for reading...

[Stressleave]

I would use a Clove hitch followed by a couple of half hitches. The only other one I would trust might be a Bowline.
Cheers
Paul

[dubble dippin]

Hi,
The one I would probably use, and it's fairly simple is a 'round turn and two half hitches" . Here is a link to a demo. http://www.animatedknots.com/roundturn/index.php. Hope it help

[shrew]

I would not use cleats, rings or any other hardware on teh dock to tie my boat. I would only use the pilings and I would tie a clove-hitch around the piling finished off with 2 half-hitches to lock the clove hitch. Metal hardware such as cleats and rings can become the weak link. You don't know if they're properly through-bolted with washers. You don't know how goo the wood is around the screws or bolts. Maybe water has worked it's way into the screw/bolt holes and compromised the wood.

Dock cleats can be pulled. If pilings are pulled, then you've got biger problems to worry about and no amount of tying is going to fix that problem.

I tie the whipped end to the piling, then leave the loop end to tie to my cleats when I pull back into the dock. The lines get tied in the spring and taken down in the fall. I then carry a completely seperate set of boat lines.

[SilveradoSS]

That is a cool web site! Thanks for shareing.

[Lighthouseman]

This website is great! The kids love it. Thanks for the link.

Martyn