How to Tie Ossel Knot

Video Transcript

"The Ossel Knot is a variation on to the Ossel Hitch but also a variation of a Rolling Hitch. If you look down here you can see I have got my line here, this nice thick line and I am going to take my smaller line and basically I am going to wrap it over and then wrap it once again and then back under and in the same direction in another double knot. Now this would be our rolling hitch if we were doing a rolling hitch. What I am going to do is take it and do something different and wrap it over one more time. Just like in the rolling hitch I am going to pull my standing line out and pull this through over here and through like that and there you go, an Ossel Knot. Now the Ossel Knot is used mainly for connecting the larger lines to the smaller lines mainly because in the day the large lines were a part of the fishing nets and you needed these to tow them with. Let's do this one more time. First untie all of this. We are going to go in and start by creating our Rolling Hitch which is up and cross over and roll again like so and then I am just going to put that extra turn in it. I need to pull just a little bit more line here. I am going to pull my extra turn in it and pull my standing end like so and pull the extra loop that I have created in it and then just tighten it all down."