“Monkey Fist” is emerging as a hot self-protection item for women. The fist is a knot tied at the end of a rope, acting as a weight or anchor. Sailors first used the knot to put weight at the ends of ...

Every ocean scientist should know how to tie a half dozen or so knots. One of those should be a monkey’s fist, name because it looks like a small clenched fist, it was originally tied into the end of ...