Xlnt site. I will take slight issue with the recommended knot book, though. Sure we need only to know a good bend, a bowline and some mild restraints to enjoy life, but Clifford Ashley's Book of Knots, the definitive source on the subject, is such a towering masterpiece of illustration, arcane knowledge and Twainish humor, it's nearly criminal that the one knot book you own in your life would not be this man's incomparable life's work. *****+