How to make a guide ace

The sail knot As of guide is of the class of knots that are made at the end of a rope, retreating backwards and forming a loop around the point where they are tied, but without adjusting to it. The sail knot As of guide is an ideal knot to fix halyards to the cuffs of the sails, to join the greater sheet to the boom, to tie a noray, etc, that is to say for any use that needs a safe, strong knot and that holds the tension no matter how strong it is, without letting go. Due to the great usefulness of this knot in the nautical world it is very important that you know how to make an Ace of guidance . Because its realization is complex we will show you a mnemonic rule that will help you to make an ace of guidance easily.

• Rope or rope

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Grab the line and give it the following shape that you see in the attached image. You must think that you have a lake with a tree (important the lake is above the tree).

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Next, make the end of the line, as if a snake comes out of the lake.

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Then the snake surrounds the tree from behind.

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And finally the snake gets into the lake.

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To adjust the knot well, the last thing you have to do is pull the tree, the head of the snake and its tail.

• The guide ace is a knot that can withstand great tension and does not slip or block. Apart from being a basic sailor knot, it is also widely used in the mountains.