Taut-line hitch: Difference between revisions

[[Image:AdjustableHitchVariations.jpg|thumb|'''Top''', left to light: ABOK "Rolling Hitch(1)" (#1734), "Rolling Hitch(2)" (#1735), "Magnus Hitch" (#1736).  '''Bottom''', the corresponding adjustable loop made using the hitch above it, left to right: "Adjustable Hitch" (#1800), "Midshipman's Hitch" (#1799), "Adjustable Hitch" (#1800) with the concluding hitch reversed.]]

The adjustable loop forms of the Rolling Hitch and Magnus hitch, in addition to being called either of those two names, have also come to be known variously as the '''Taut-line hitch'''<ref name="tossrigg"/>, '''Tent-line hitch''',<ref name="tossrigg"/> '''Rigger's Hitch''',<ref name="tossrigg"/> '''Adjustable hitch''',<ref name="ashley304">Clifford W. Ashley, ''The Ashley Book of Knots'' (New York: Doubleday, 1944), 304.</ref> or '''Midshipman's Hitch'''.<ref name="ashley304"/>  These knots are generally shown as being based on one of three underlying hitches: two variants of the Rolling hitch (ABOK #1734 and #1735) and the Magnus hitch (#1736).  These three closely-related hitches have a long and muddled [[Rolling hitch#Naming|naming history]] that leads to ambiguity in the naming of their adjustable loop forms as well.  ''The Ashley Book of Knots'' discusses the three loop forms as the Midshipman's hitch (#1799) and two variants of the Adjustable hitch (#1800).<ref name="ashley304"/>  See the image to the right for an illustration of these related knots.