How to Tie a Flemish Bend

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Now a Flemish Bend is a bend. A bend differs from a knot because it is a way of tying two ropes together in a way that you can untie them. Now with a Flemish Bend old seamen really didn't like it very too much because back in the old days it was mostly fibers or vegetable cord it was really hard to untie a Flemish bend because it had a way of tightening the knots together and binding them in such way that the rope was useless. In those days rope was very expensive and something to be used and prized. Here we have our nice new rope which is not going to bind quite as much because this is because this is all synthetic polyester. I am going to start with a simple bend. To begin with we are going to twist this end under and actually create a second loop into a figure 8 almost and then we are going to take this working end here and place it right into the first loop we made. There we go a nice start to a Flemish Bend. Now what you are going to do with your second rope is to follow it through the same way. Just back end and bring it around, fold it back all the way through, make sure this under piece comes back around and grabs both of these knots and comes back through and as you pull these together this creates a nice way of putting two ropes together. No matter how much tension you put on this you should be able to untie this especially since it is polyester cord and not natural fiber cord this would be very easy to untie.

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