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{{Knot-details
| name=Racking bend
| image= Racking Bend.jpg
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| type= bend
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| uses= Joining two ropes of widely different diameter
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| abok_number= #1462<ref>{{cite book |title=The Ashley Book Of Knots |date=1944 |url=https://archive.org/stream/TheAshleyBookOfKnots/the+ashley+book+of+knots_djvu.txt |access-date=3 July 2024}}</ref>
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The '''racking bend''' is a knot for joining two ropes of different diameter.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stilwell |first1=Alexander |title=SAS and Elite Forces Guide Ropes and Knots: Essential Rope Skills From The World's Elite Units |date=3 April 2012 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4617-4861-8 |language=en}}</ref> "Racking" refers to the [[figure-eight knot|figure eight]] weaving that binds the [[Bight (knot)|bight]] of the larger rope together.

It serves a somewhat similar purpose as a [[Sheet bend]], a [[Double sheet bend]] or a [[Heaving line bend]], and may be used to throw a thick line over with the help of a thinner line at the end of which there may be a weight such as a [[Monkey fist]] or a [[Wikibooks:Knots/Heaving knots/Heaving line knot|Heaving line knot]].

==See also==
*[[List of bend knots]]
*[[List of knots]]

==References==
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