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Basic Knots

  • 12 Feb 2011
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Baltimore's Downtown Sailing Center
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  • Consider joining as a crew level member. Benefits include 50% discount on adult ed classes and participation in open sailing events.

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Sign up to learn the proper way to tie the various knots we use in sailing.  In addition to learning 12 knots used in sailing, you'll learn about the various materials and structures use in rope and how they affect the knots.

Learn these 12 knots and where they are best used:

  • Figure eight
  • Bowline
  • Clove hitch
  • Single slip reef knot
  • Cleat hitch
  • Round turn with two half hitches
  • Rolling hitch
  • Sheet bend
  • Single and double constrictor knot
  • Butterfly knot
  • Carrick bend
  • French bowline

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The Downtown Sailing Center

Est 1994
1425 Key Highway, Suite 110, Baltimore, MD 21230
(410) 727-0722 • info@downtownsailing.org