The mast throw is a knot that can be used to tie a rope to a post, branch or, originally from seafaring, to a mast. There are two ways to tie it. Either you tie it and place it over the mast, or you tie it directly around the mast.
Advantages:
The knot is very simple and still holds very well. It is easy to untie again.
Disadvantages:
It is not very suitable for trees and the like, as the trunk is sometimes too big and therefore a lot of rope is needed and the knot can fall apart without an additional safety button.
Mast throw (laid)
Cross your arms: place your left arm over your right arm or vice versa.
- Take the rope (with the arms crossed) in both hands so that the rope comes from the left, goes into the first right hand and then into the second left hand.
- Uncross your arms. Now the rope should come from the left, lead to the right, through the right hand from left to right, then to the left into the left hand from left to right and then to the left.
- Cross the arms again, but so that the arm that was previously at the bottom is now at the top.
- Place the two loops that have been created over your pole and tighten. Done.
Mast throw (tied/pinned)
- Guide the rope around the mast so that it comes through at the top (for vertical masts and to the left for horizontal masts).
- Guide the rope around the mast again so that this time it passes through the bottom of the two ropes.
- Now pass the rope under the loop that was created in step 1.
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