Oysterman’s Stopper Knot
Extract from Prepper's Guide to Knots • By Scott Finazzo • Published by Ulysses PressAbout
Prepper's Guide to Knots
Also known as: Ashley’s Stopper Knot
This is a bulkier stopper knot that can be used to prevent the rope from pulling through an object or to prevent an object from sliding off the rope.
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Legend has it that around 1910, Clifford Ashley, author of The Ashley Book of Knots, noticed a knot aboard a boat in an oyster fishing fleet. It was lumpy and unrecognizable. What he later determined to be a wet, swollen, and poorly tied Figure Eight Knot had become known as the Oysterman’s Stopper Knot or the Ashley’s Stopper Knot.
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