How to tie a Round Turn and Two Half Hitches

Instructional video showing how to tie a Round Turn and Two Half Hitches, to accompany page 26 of the fourth edition of the highly popular book 'Knots in Use' by Colin Jarman. Audio not required.

Published by Adlard Coles Nautical in October 2013.

[Kiwa]

I appreciate this a lot. Now I can pass my jrotc knots test without any problem. 👍🏻

[LexLuthor]

Thank you for this useful video. :) Watching it at half speed a couple of times, whilst practicing the knot, was very effective for learning it.

[roxsal]

Thank you for all the videos.very informative.👍👍👍

[alanp.jimukochi]

Bro your videos are so useful thanks 👍👍❤️

[briandsteel]

Hate to say it, but when I first watched your video, I thought, "Darn, I've been tying this knot wrong for many years". Then I checked my original sources, and other on-line tutorials, and all confirmed that I'd been doing it right all along, and it's this video that gets it wrong! The problem is, you are forming the round-turn back-to-front with respect to the half hitches, resulting in a cross-over of the two loops which should not be there! If you had put the rope end over the bar pulled it back under and to the right of the standing end, and repeated that, before tying your two half hitches, then the knot would be correct. Otherwise, great video! :-)

[aizenuchiha]

Thanks I need this for my Navy Cadets AB qualifying course big help

[iankuser]

Just now realizing that a clove hitch is really just 2 half hitches

[bryantreacher]

If you use a buntline hitch you do have two half hitches, but what a lot of people think of as two half hitches is in fact a granny knot which is not two half hitches but two overhand knots which is two hitches.

[bryantreacher]

This is in fact a round turn and a granny knot