As an update to this vibrant thread (
),
let me note that one can find evidence
of the actual U.S. Army use of this knot
--well, rather, of a cheap variant of it--
on-line in some Army field manual.
To my remark about "cheap variant",
what is shown in the aforementioned manual
is a knot w/a full twist fewer than what the
Popular Boating article presents; in my judgement,
that brevity comes at a cost of stability --prefer
the original!
--dl*
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