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Babi knot... How much irony and disdain can be heard on the part of sailors towards this primitive and, unfortunately, firmly rooted knot in our life! What sailors shouldn't do is tie a woman's knot. The naval man, who unluckily tied this knot even on the shore, will surely be ridiculed by his colleagues: they say, a shame for the fleet! But, alas, among land people this knot is a station wagon. The vast majority of people who are not familiar with rigging, or those who, by their profession, do not deal with ropes, ropes, or threads, use a woman’s knot in all cases when they need to tie, tie or tie something . It seems that people, having mastered this knot in childhood, believed in its utility so much that they don’t even want to hear about any other complex sea knots. Nevertheless, speaking seriously, this traitor knot has done a lot of trouble in the entire history of mankind and even claimed a lot of human lives.

The Babi knot consists of two half-knots tied in series one above the other in the same direction. If he ties two ropes and pulls, then it is immediately clear that he begins to move along the rope, to slide along it. And if you tie it close to one of the connected ends of the rope, then when pulling it, it can slip and will certainly slip if the connected ropes are of different thicknesses. Unfortunately, not everyone knows about this and continues to use it.

Rice. 23. Babi knot: a - knitting pattern; b - the transformation of the woman's knot into a simple bayonet

This knot got its name due to the fact that from time immemorial women tied the ends of headscarves with it (it is very convenient for this purpose). It is also called "grandmother's", "stupid", "veal", "false", "salaga" knot.

But, oddly enough, the woman's knot is used in their work by sailors and fishermen of some countries. In addition to its negative qualities (to slip and not succumb to untying), they caught one of its positive properties - under certain conditions, instantly turn into simple bayonet - into one of the simplest and most reliable maritime knots for securing a mooring vessel on the shore to a bollard, bollard or bollard. But in order to tie a simple bayonet when mooring, you need to get off the ship ashore and do it directly at the fell or put the end on the shore so that those on the shore do it. But it turns out that a simple bayonet can be tied to a bollard without leaving the ship ashore. And this is done with the help of a woman's knot despised by sailors ... To do this, at the end of the cable, which they intend to bring ashore for fastening it with a simple bayonet around the fell, a loop is made, the running end of the cable is connected to the root end of the woman's knot, which is not fully tightened. From the side of the ship, this loop is thrown onto the fell. When jerking at the root of the mooring line, the woman's knot turns into a simple bayonet.

Author: Skryagin L.N.

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