ANCHOR BEND Applications Soak Used on small boats for securing Take a round turn but then pass the first of two identical rope warps to anchor rings, this half-hitches through it (figs 1-3).The 1904 variant (fig. 4) knot is misleadingly named. It is a round turn through a round turn, which, when it has actually a strong-ish (70-75%) been systematically worked up snug, makes a serni- and secure hitch for wet and ee tino 2 ats 3 HISTORY ‘The anchor bend was recommended by David Steel in Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship (1794). It is also known as the fisherman's bend. A neat variant 4 appeared in the anonymous Handbook of Boat Sailing (1904).