Anyone who's ever worked on a ship docking job know how important it is to have a good monkey's fist knot to send up the heaving line and messenger. This is probably one of the most difficult knots to make. This diagram does a pretty good job of illustrating the direction of the turns. A weight may be fashioned by rolling rubber insulating tape around a large nut to make a round ball to be slipped into the fist at about the first picture in the last row below.
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