[X1, nb : I edited/corrected a part you quoted >>"after completely after"]
And, I repeat, the MOST important characteristic of such a knot
is not how it is tied, but how it is untied ! It can be completely
un-tied even before the tail has been pulled out from the ring.
The moment the working end has been de-tached from the standing part,
one member on board ( not on the dock) is able to pull the free now
standing end out of the ring, not worrying about any remaining knot
on the (mooring) line ...
No, that cannot be : such "worry" might exist and need attention to,
but at least one is free and can manage that ; in contrast, it could well
be that the
tying was made possible only because there was no
initial, partial knotting to be done --where the information about
whereto do this was not available (and could only be accommodated by making
a huge donation of material to the uncertain-in-size eye)!
.:. To be able to size the amount of material in the eye, to check, to adjust,
and then to tie the knot, surely must count as a greater good
than being free of a knot upon removing the tail!
I do like the term "PET" - it is sweet... - ,
but you have to repeat it many more times, to imprint it to the audience s memory !
Better, note how I
wrote it, by hand (and would *improve*
this graphic by NOT extending the top of the 'P' left of its vertical
stem. (Though, yes, the upper, closed part of the 'P' can be seen
as a 'D' ... . Eh, to believe is to see ... : the "P"'s stem runs down
through all!)
I see that I have made some small step towards further documentation
of the piles of *new* knots lying about, and these were grouped as
being zeppelin-like eye knots (a quartet that includes the one above
shown by me). I like the shape of the leftmost one. The rightmost
one is a guide to some asymmetric interlocked-
overhands end-2-end
knot that might prove stronger than the
zeppelin --to an issue
raised elsewhere : does one see this as proving asymmetry betters
symmetry as such, or might there be yet another symmetric knot
that can be seen as the superior one to be associated with it (as
one might think with the
butterfly and
Ashley's #1408--though maybe the former, properly oriented, proves stornger?!) !?
(Looks as though I need to make headway on XXXIII by at least 3
or 4 more rows! Then, beyond that, at least as many more pages!!)
--dl*
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