Chapman Piloting contains the most professional treatment of standard knots, as part of seamanship as a whole-
kPower has gone beyond all such previous sources in the quest for AWE techne, as documented on the Old Forum.
Windy Skies has also wrongly decided to hide this valuable content from public view. A naïve reader might think Ashley’s children’s classic was state-of-the-art, under anonymous “spacepatata” referencing.
There are a handful of superior knot-tech cultures- Yachting, Commercial and Sport Fishing, Industrial Rigging (many specialties), Technical Kiting, and Alpinism (including caving and industrial climbing).
Lets continue to review the top references. This is the Alpinist Bible, where knots are treated as part of a larger practical system of safety and mobility-
Why these links here?
Surely they should be in the section about knots.
Having been a qualified IRATA rope access technician… I understand there is a value for these links in the knots section
If Windy Skies had not split the knot topics up into this hidden topic, all the better technical knot info would visible.
Inviting anyone else to offer their own best idea of who has set the state-of the-art in AWE knots, without thinking such claims need censoring or any moderation.
kPower sure has worked hard on knots in AWE, compared to anyone else known. This hidden topic proves that much.
None of the moderators seem able to explain why mathematical knots are of not of interest to knot based technology. All they seem to do is exercise undue moderation power over such interesting content.