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Parts of a rope

Le parti della cima

The parts of a rope: standing part, bight, loop and working endstanding partbight: a curve with no crossingloopworking end
In every knot on these cards the standing part is blue and the working end is orange.
  • Standing part: the long part of the rope, the one that takes the load.
  • Working end: the end you work with, the one you move.
  • Bight: a curve in the rope with no crossing. Loop: an eye, with a crossing.
  • Turn: one pass round an object. Round turn: a full turn.

Remember. A bend joins two ropes; a hitch is tied round an object (a post, a ring, another rope).

Standing part parte fissa (dormiente)|Working end capo (parte corrente)|Bight seno|Loop / eye occhio (asola)|Round turn volta tonda|Half hitch mezzo collo|Bend / hitch nodo che unisce / nodo attorno a un oggetto|Stopper knot nodo d'arresto

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Fonti: RYA Day Skipper (pubblicazione RYA), PDF p.6 Knots/Ropework; RYA Yachtmaster Offshore, sezione Seamanship: Knots; Seaman's Notes, vocabolario nodi (con la correzione gassa d'amante = bowline); Accademia Velica Italiana, I nodi fondamentali (accademiavelica.it, documentazione, Nodi, node6-node16); Animated Knots by Grog: bowline, clove hitch, round turn and two half hitches, figure 8 (animatedknots.com); Wikipedia, Rolling hitch e Reef knot (en.wikipedia.org)