Supplements

International Guild of Knot Tyers

ALL SCOUT KNOTS

This is a useful contribution from Matthew Allmaras in the USA and is a complete list of the knots that Scouts and Sea Scouts are expected to know in their various ranks and grades.

CUB SCOUT

Overhand Knot

Square Knot

Tautline Hitch

Two Half Hitches

Bowline

Whip A Rope

Fuse A Rope

Clinch Knot - Bear Goes Fishing

Palomar Knot - Bear Goes Fishing

SCOUT

Square Knot

Two Half Hitches

Tautline Hitch

Whip A Rope

Fuse A Rope

TENDERFOOT

Square Knot

Two Half Hitches

Tautline Hitch

SECOND CLASS

Sheetbend

Bowline

FIRST CLASS

Timber Hitch

Clove Hitch

Square Lashing

Shear Lashing

Diagonal Lashing

ARCHERY MERIT BADGE

Bow String

CANOEING & KAYAKING MERIT BADGE

Truckers Hitch

Bowline

Two Half Hitches

CLIMBING MERIT BADGE

Butterfly Coil

Safety Knot

Figure Eight on a Bight

Figure Eight Follow-Through

Water Knot

Double Fisherman's Knot (Grapevine Knot)

Prusik Knot

Seat Harness

Knotted Leg-Loop Harness

FISHING MERIT BADGE

Improved Clinch Knot

Palomar Knot

Turle Knot (Turtle Knot)

Blood Loop (Barrel Knot)

Double Surgeon's Loop

Nail Knot

Wire Line to Mono Knot

Arbor Knot

Tucked Sheet Bend

Snelling a Hook

FLY FISHING MERIT BADGE

Double Surgeon's Loop

Nail Knot

Blood Loop (Barrel Knot)

Improved Clinch Knot

Turle Knot (Turtle Knot)

Arbor Knot

Needle Knot

Loop-to-Loop Knot

Perfection Loop

Duncan Loop

 

LEATHER WORK MERIT BADGE

Whip Stitch

Running Stitch

Double Loop Lacing

Single-Needle Hand Stitching

Double-Needle Hand Stitching

Drawstring

Round Braid

Square Braid

Terminal Turk's Head

Mystery Braid

PIONEERING MERIT BADGE

Butterfly Coil

Fusing a Rope

Basic Whipping

West Country Whipping

Sailmaker's Whipping

Square Knot

Bowline

Bowline on a Bight

Clove Hitch

Sheet Bend

Timber Hitch

Round Turn with Two Half Hitches

Safety Knot

Sheepshank

Figure Eight on a Bight

Figure Eight Follow-Through

Double Sheet Bend

Rolling Hitch

Butterfly Knot

Carrick Bend

Water Knot

Pipe Hitch

Double Fisherman's Knot (Grapevine Knot)

Honda Knot

Masthead Knot (Jury Knot)

Prusik Knot

Barrel Hitch

Back Splice

Eye Splice

Short Splice

Making Rope

Anchor

Log & Stake Anchoring System

Rope Sling

Rope & Tackle

Trucker's Hitch

Square Lashing

Modified Square Lashing

Japanese Mark II Square Lashing

Shear Lashing

Diagonal Lashing

Round Lashing

Tripod Lashing

Floor Lashing

West Country Shear Lashing

Two Spar Shear Lashing

Strop Lashing

SMALL-BOAT SAILING MERIT BADGE

Cleat Hitch

Bowline

Square Knot

Clove Hitch

Figure Eight Knot

Two Hal Hitches

Coil

Faking Down a Line

SEA SCOUTS

APPRENTICE

Overhand Knot

Reef Knot

Figure Eight Knot

Stevedore's Knot

Bowline

Two Half Hitches

Clove Hitch

Sheet (Becket) Bend

Cleat Hitch

ORDINARY

Name various material used to manufacturer rope, advantages and disadvantages, meaning of lay, thread, strand, and hawser.

Stevedore Knot

French Bowline

Bowline on a Bight

Timber Hitch

Rolling Hitch

Marline Hitch

Midshipman’s Hitch (taut-line)

Truckers Hitch

Coil a Rope

Flemish AaLine

Cut and Heat-Seal a Synthetic Line

Whip the End of Plain-Laid Line

ABLE

Back Splice

Eye Splice

Long Splice

Palm-and-Needle-Whipping

QUARTERMASTER

Eye Splice in Double Braided Line

ADVANCEMENT ELECTIVES

ORNAMENTAL ROPEWORK

1. Three Strand Turks Head

1. Three Strand Monkey's Fist

1. Using either ornamental knot make up a heaving line.

2. Four Strand Turks Head

2. Coach Whipping

2. Cockscombining

2. Round Braid

2. Wall Knot

2. Crown Knot

3. Make a useful item such as a boatswain’s lanyard, rigging knife lanyard, bell rope, etc., or decorate a portion of your ship’s equipment such as a stanchion, rail, lifeline, tiller, etc.

MARLINSPIKE SEAMANSHIP

ADDITIONAL KNOTS

Running Bowline

Slip Knot

Fishermans Knot

Round Seizing

Throat Seizing

Racking Seizing

Rattling Down

Splice Rope Grommet

Metal Grommet Ring

TYPES OF TACKLE

Single Whip

Runner

Gun Tackle

Luff Tackle

Twofold or Double Purchase Tackle

Reeving Tackle

Mousing a Hook