I’m certainly no expert on knots, but I do like them. They’ve always held a kind of fascination for me over the years, I even have an app on my phone with 121 knots in glorious 3D. It sounds a little sad as I write this, but I also have a favourite… a Constrictor Knot. I use it all the time because I learned a simple way to quickly put this one together for securing the ends of frayed lines even when a Granny would do the trick! The image on the left is actually a Carrick Bend and it’s another one I like… simple to use and yet brilliant for joining two ropes together. I used this as the image... Read the full text.