How to Tie a Sheet Bend Knot

Video Transcript

"Knots have a long and varied history, and I'm going to show you a classic one in the sailing world. My name is Robert Segundo, and I'm going to show you how to make a sheet bend knot. Now a sheet bend is usually meant for putting two different ropes of two different sizes together, and using in wet conditions. This is a great one to hook ropes together really quickly so you can, you know, because it's very important usually when it's raining or storming. So if you look down, you can see that we have two lengths of rope here, and they're both the same size, but it really doesn't matter, they'll work the same way on either one. What I'm going to do is, I'm just going to go ahead and pull a bend into one of my ropes, like so. What I'm going to do is, I'm going to take this one, my other working end, and it's going to come down, like so. I'm going to wrap it around both edges, and tuck it under, like so. And when I pull it down, this is going to be a nice tight bend, and this will hold both of these ropes together. And this is really great, because you want to put a bend in your ropes, because you want to be able to re-use your ropes. And no matter how much pressure you put on this, you will still be able to untie it. Because it'll just slip right out, no matter how much weight you, or load you put on it. So we're going to do, is do this again. Go ahead and pull a bend into our rope here. We're going to bring it under our loop, over, under both loops, and then back under itself, and the standing end. Then just bring them down and tighten them down. And there you have it, a nice sheet bend. My name is Robert Segundo, and enjoy tying knots."