We covered the 8 knots every beginning sailor should know in our journal — bowline, cleat hitch, figure-eight, round turn and two half hitches, clove hitch, rolling hitch, reef knot, and sheet bend.
But here’s the thing: once you’ve been sailing a while, you realise some knots come up constantly and others barely at all. The bowline is king, obviously. But beyond that?
Which knots do you actually use most? Any favourites we didn’t mention? And what’s the one knot you always struggle to remember under pressure?