Consider this though: The Palomar is perhaps the strongest knot one can use to attach a line to a hook. Meanwhile, the Palomar's structure is based on a simple overhand and is unlike other angling knots that have multiple turns around the standing end.
We should look more closely than this. The
Palomar is presented
in three orientations: with the bight-end left around the shank of
the hook; with it moved out to surround the knot (
Half-hitch);
and with it brought fully up around the SPart & tail ("tag end"),
which makes it a
Pile-hitch noose hitch. (Both Sosin & Kreh
and Wilson say "make sure the loop [bight-end] rides up over
the hook eye and doesn't bind around the shank".)
Are these three knots equally strong?
In HMPE ("gel-spun") lines, apparently, the
Palomar and
with 2 extra wraps around the eye the
Triple Palomarare not, according to Geoff Wilson's testing (e.g., 75% for
the stronger, "Triple", where line is breaking at 130% of
its rating). (The
Uni, given a triple-turn guard, too, is a
bit stronger; Wilson shows it deliberately tied in the
Strangleorientation (using an aid to pass the end up through wraps).
(Well, hmmm, I see that Wilson too is coy about equating
the knots -- the
Uni still left much to the imagination
and vagaries of setting, alas.))
In fact, with the bight-end brought back past the hook's
eye --either around the knot or father-- , one DOES have
some bit of wrapping, though hardly the extent in e.g.
a
clinch knot. Consider what is more important: that
the knot is tightened to a great extent by pulling on
bothends --SPart & tail-- , which makes the bight-end wrap & bind
more surely than would the knot if tied in rope and left
to load-tightening.
The
Overhand is turned into a
Half-hitch, with I think
less pressure of a
choker sort around the SPart than
is the case for Rosendahl's bend.
--dl*
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