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Re: Best Stopper Knots for Team Supplied Knots

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Originally Posted by Jonah303 View Post
My team is planning on using a monkey fist knot as the stopper on the end of our rope. If you use a monkey fist as the core of another monkey fist and tie it really tight, It is very strong.
The more I think about it, the more I think that I may have to amend my earlier statements warning against monkey's fists. They may be the best, if not only way for teams using very small diameters of cord to get a stopper knot large enough. I imagine a team using standard solid core paracord will need to use several successive monkey's fists to get to the size they need. When I get a chance and get some rope, I'll try tying this and see what happens.

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I am not thrilled about the idea of suspending our robot by a stopper knot, especially with a 1" square retaining opening. There are much more secure ways of fixing a rope to the davit. The blue box 12" rule makes even things less secure, as larger line, with which you could tie larger knots, is more likely to fail the test. I doubt that the line in the field tour videos would pass the test.

Complaints aside, some other knots to consider are those used in soft shackles, such as the diamond knot and the button knot which can be seen here.
I agree. Having a peg or hook for a loop to go onto would have been a MUCH more secure way to attach the Ropes.

I'd been avoiding all the knots and shackles used in splicing because I figure many teams won't be using a splicable rope, but if teams want to go down the splicing path, that does open up a lot of really great options. Do you know of a way to make single strand variants of the diamond and button knots?
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