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Here’s a handy one-page reference that shows six First Class Knots – the square knot, taut-line hitch, two half hitches, timber hitch, clove hitch and bowline.
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Taut-Line Hitch (not Taught-Line) as CG has drawn it is a variant of several Rolling Hitches and is easy to confuse. (However, I acknowledge drawing any knot is even more of a challenge so my hat’s off to you in that regard.)
What is drawn on CG’s version I just downloaded … (8-28-2014, 1 pm Eastern … and for some reason is entitled Ball in Cage Neckerchief Slide.pdf) … seems to be Ashley’s Knot #1857. It is created just like the taut-line hitch in the Boy Scout Handbook page 385, but the “final hitch is in the opposite direction” (-Wikipedia, Taut-line Hitch).
The Boy Scout’s taut-line has the working end always traveling around the rope in the same direction, e.x. 2 x CLOCKWISE turns around the standing end and below the working end and then 1 x CLOCKWISE turn outside of the working end. (or counter-clockwise if you prefer)
CG’s graphic shows 2 x CLOCKWISE turns and then 1 COUNTER-CLOCKWISE turn. Had he followed the red dotted line in the 2nd part of the graphic and kept it in front the rest of the time, it would be a correct Boy Scout Taut-Line.
The way it’s drawn will probably work and we know the Boy Scout version works, too. But both Wikipeida and Animated Knots by Grog both warn that they are “less secure” and recommend the Midshipman’s Hitch be used as the most secure. In fact, the Midshipman’s Hitch is what was taught in the handbooks before 1948. (see either sources to see the difference.)
Oddly, when I click the download button, it gets the right file (although without the spelling fix), but the file name of the downloaded file is … ball and chain neckerchief slide?