Talk:Heaving line bend

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The picture I uploaded is of the heaving line knot given in ashlys (#1463) but the directions dont sound like they are talking about this knot. If someone will give me the right ashleys number on this I will be happy to make a new pic

That is not a heaving line knot. The picture shows two lines of un equal size being tied together, that would be called a "sheet bend" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.83.116.115 (talk) 17:42, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A heaving line is a smallish diameter line that you heave from the shore up onto the rail/deck of a big ship. Then the heaving line is fastened to a MUCH bigger line --- a hawser --- that is then shoveled over the side of the big ship and you can use the heaving line that is now attached to the hawser to bring the hawser over to the bollard and make the ship fast. So, note that the knot is used precisely in the case of attaching a small line to a big line, ie two lines of unequal size. Disclaimer -- I've never tied this knot, because I have always been the guy on the dock; the guys on the big ship all know how to tie some kind of knot that works, and that I can get apart okay without a marlinspike. On the other hand, hurling a heaving line and having it land nicely on the rail of a big ship requires a bit of expertise. Any reasonably big ship has a kind of davit for lowering those big hawsers with the looped ends.Richard8081 (talk) 16:51, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tying, specially step 3, is too short/cryptic to be useful. In addition we must avoid "instructions" in wikipedia; Since knot pages are useless without tying details, you might want to style the text instead as "the usual method of tying" with a reference to the fact.Cobanyastigi (talk) 04:54, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]