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Originally Posted by FRC6055
You can tie a monkey's fist without anything inside it. It takes time, but it can be done. That is what we are doing for our teams rope for our retention feature.
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A monkey's fist with an empty core will be subject to collapsing, falling through the davit fingers.
I found that with a simple overhand knot as the core, a two-wrap monkeys fist covered it well and kept the shape.
Note that I04 was modified in Team Update 05, so that the knots of the retaining feature may now be up to two inches below the fingers. This allows things like larks heads or bowlines to be used as the retaining feature with small line.