Carrick Bend

The Carrick Bend, a very secure knot to join the ends of two ropes.
This method of tying the knot is my own invention and it has never been published before.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• knots
• ropes
• sailing
• boating

[andrewmcnnz]

Clever method of tying the carrick bend, and with practice for a working rigger, I'm sure it's very quick. That said, it's a more difficult and error prone method than most without practice. Tying in smaller line than yours it tends to leave me with much longer ends than I'd like, and the time spent adjusting counters the speed advantage than your method looks like it should offer. But maybe I'll improve that with practice.

[rigwizard]

Generally, ends should be left rather long for knots to be secure. I don't mind rather long ends, but of course if tidiness is what you yearn for, there are more snug knots, as the Zeppelin and similar, and the fisherman's knots don't need long ends. However sheet bends are more secure with longer ends than with very short ends.

The method is dexigned to make the knot secure and less error prone. There are scores of faulty descriptions in the literature, but this one is safe; after training!

[RStechguy]

Thanks very much for this. Given that know about 20 other knots and splices I use regularly - I feel complete recognition of what you say about this bend in the video - secure AND easy to release. And can literally tie this bend with eyes closed using this method (necessity for any knot you are going to rely on "for real")