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Anchor Bend

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and livestock, camping, and scouting.

Bowline on a Bight

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and livestock, camping, and scouting.

Buntline Hitch

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and livestock, camping, and scouting.

Carrick Bend or Sailors Knot

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and livestock, camping, and scouting.

Horn Cleat or Cleat Hitch

Cowboy Bowline (Dutch Marine Bowline)

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and livestock, camping, and scouting.

Double Bowline

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and live stock, camping, and scouting. Fly fishing knot used to form a loop in the leader; sport fishing knot used to attach a loop in the line or the leader.

Double Pile Hitch

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and live stock, camping, and scouting.

Dutch Marine Bowline (Cowboy Bowline)

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and live stock, camping, and scouting.

Gallows Knot

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and livestock, camping, and scouting.

Gripping Sailors Hitch (Gripping Sailors Knot)

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and livestock, camping, and scouting.

Improved Clove Hitch

Lobster Buoy Hitch

Midspan Sheet Bend

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and live stock, camping, and scouting.

Pile Hitch

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and livestock, camping, and scouting.

Sailors Hitch

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and livestock, camping, and scouting.

Scaffold Knot

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and livestock, camping, and scouting.

Slip Knot

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and livestock, camping, and scouting.

Towing Becket Bend

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and livestock, camping, and scouting.

Trucker’s Hitch

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and livestock, camping, and scouting.

Water Bowline

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and livestock, camping, and scouting.

Zeppelin Bend or Rosendahl Bend

Useful knot used for search and rescue, mountaineering, climbing, boating, horse and live stock, camping, and scouting.