Nope... never in the Navy. Thanks for the explanation.

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:58:48 -0700, "Capt. JG"
said:

I've never heard of a rolling hitch called a stopper knot. Stopper knots
are
usually associated with preventing a line from going through something,
such
as a fairlead.

Guess you didn't spend time in the Navy.

I never heard it called anything else until I came across it in a book. It
was called a stopper knot because it's used to "pass a stopper" when you
need to take a line under load to another location. The line carrying the
load while the line is being shifted is called a stopper, and was
generally
made up by separating the three strands and braiding them, taking a few
strands out with each braid to create a taper to the tail.