Snuggle hitch Snuggle hitch The snuggle hitch is a modification of the clove hitch, and is stronger and more secure. Owen K. Nuttall of the "International Guild of Knot Tyers" came up with this unique hitch, and it was first documented in the Guild's "Knotting Matters" magazine issue of January, 1987. Generally, hitches are used to attach a line to another rope or spar, pole, etc., and are usually temporary. Thus, they should be relatively easy to untie. Start by tying a clove hitch around the spar or pole. Then make an additional turn around with the working end, in the same
Becket hitch line, then tucked under inside the first bend. Becket hitch A becket hitch, including the double becket or figure-of-eight becket hitch, is any hitch that is made on an eye loop, i.e. on a becket. A becket hitch has the same structure as the sheet bend, which joins, or "bends", the ends of two ropes together. The becket hitch, in contrast, fixes a rope to a closed eye or hook. In this instance, a "becket" means the eye or hook of a pulley block, an eye in the end of a rope, or a rope handle on a sailors sea