Best knot for tying line to a swivel
Swivels have big round eyes and take a lot of shock. The knot has to hold where the line meets the ring without cutting on it.
Palomar Knot
Strong field fit · 80% · 52 ruled out first
Why it wins
- ·Essentially level with Uni Knot on weighted field fit (Strong vs Strong). Treat them as the same answer and choose on the tradeoff
- ·Fast field retie
- ·High strength when seated
- ·Strong connection-job fit (80)
Watch for
- !The loop is left on the bend or against the bottom of the eye, so the knot seats crooked. NetKnots warns it can fail tied that way.
- !The final pull was fast and dry, and mono or fluorocarbon heated and weakened at the knot
- !The tag has been drawn back inside the coils, where it can cut the line at the eye
Also in the running
- 02Uni KnotVersatile79%
- 03Clinch KnotDocumented terminal job from Hook the Horizon library77%
- 04World Fair KnotDocumented terminal job from Hook the Horizon library77%
Pick Uni Knot instead Palomar Knot leads on user proficiency fit (92 vs 75) and field tieability (85 vs 78). Uni Knot still holds an edge on material compatibility.
What changes the answer
The same question with one condition added. Each row is its own engine run.
- Cold, wet handsHolds
- Wind and boat motionHolds
- Low lightHolds
- Retied all dayHolds
- First time tying itHolds
How sure this is
Low confidence: this question states only a few conditions, or the top knot's strength figure isn't traceable to a published test. Add your own conditions in Decide to sharpen it.
52 of 61 modelled connections were ruled out by hard constraints before anything was ranked. A knot that fails a constraint is never scored, however strong it is elsewhere.