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Series of protective knots around a heavy ring

Ringbolt hitching
Continuous ring hitching
Names	Ringbolt hitching, Continuous ring hitching, Single ringbolt hitching, Kackling, Keckling, Hog backing
Category	Hitch
Typical use	To prevent damage from the ring
ABoK	#3602, #3604, #3613

Ringbolt hitching is a series of hitches made around a ring. Covering a ring in hitching can prevent damage if the ring is likely to chafe or strike against something, such as a mooring line or mast.

Continuous

Continuous ring hitching, also known as single ringbolt hitching, is a series of identical hitches made around a ring. This is considered the simplest form of ringbolt hitching.

Alternate

Alternate ring hitching, also known as kackling or keckling, is a type of ringbolt hitching formed with a series of alternate left and right hitches made around a ring.

As a means of dampening sound in row boats when a covert night operation was being undertaken, oar handles were wrapped in keckling knots to prevent wood rubbing on wood.

More Ringbolt hitches

Clifford W. Ashley shows two versions of ABOK 3602. Below is without, above with additional turn.
Single-Strand Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3604). Alternating.
Three-strand Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3605)
Five-strand Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3606)
Five-strand Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3607) in style of a french sinnet.
Two-strand Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3608)
Two-strand Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3609)
Five-strand Zigzag Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3610)
Single-Strand Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3611). Buttonholing-style
Single-Strand Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3612). Buttonholing-style
Single-Strand Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3613)
Single-Strand Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3614)
Single-Strand Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3615)
Single-Strand Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3616)
Single-Strand Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3617)
Single-Strand Ringbolt hitch (ABOK 3618)

References

^ Clifford W. Ashley, The Ashley Book of Knots (New York: Doubleday, 1944), 569.
Pope Dudley, Ramage and the Dido (Great Britain: William Collins & Son, 1989), 226. ISBN 9780755108275.

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Bends	Adjustable Albright special Ashley's Alpine butterfly Basket weave Beer Blood Carrick Double fisherman's Fisherman's Flemish Grief Halyard Harness Heaving line Hunter's Nail One-sided overhand Racking Sheet Shoelace Shroud Simple Simon under Single carrick Surgeon's Surgeon's loop Triple fisherman's True lover's Water Zeppelin
Binding	Boa Bottle sling Constrictor Corned beef Granny Ground-line hitch Jamming Miller's Packer's Reef Strangle Thief Transom
Climbing	Autoblock Bachmann Beer Bowline on a bight Alpine butterfly Directional figure eight Double bowline Farmer's loop Figure-eight Figure-eight loop Figure-of-nine loop Friction hitch Klemheist Munter hitch Noose Overhand loop Prusik Trident loop Yosemite bowline
Coils & shanks	Chain sinnet Sheepshank
Decorative	Carrick mat Chinese button Celtic button Diamond Fiador Friendship Ghiordes & Senneh Matthew Walker Turk's head Wall and crown (triple crown knot)
Fishing (angling)	Angler's loop Arbor Bimini twist Blood Fisherman's Improved clinch Knotless Nail Palomar Snell Trilene Triple fisherman's Turle Uni
Hitches	Adjustable grip Anchor bend Axle Bachmann Bale sling Barrel Becket Blackwall Blake's Boom Buntline Cat's paw Clove Cow Distel Double overhand noose Falconer's Farrimond friction Friction hitch Garda Ground-line Half Halter Highpoint Highwayman's Hitching tie Icicle Improved clinch Killick Knute Lobster buoy Marlinespike Munter Ossel Pile Pipe Sailor's Snuggle Swing Taut-line Timber Trucker's Tumble
Loop	Angler's Artillery loop Bale sling hitch Bowline Bumper Carrick bend loop Cossack Cowboy bowline Diamond Double bowline Dropper loop Eskimo bowline Fiador Fireman's chair Friendship knot Halter hitch Handcuff Honda Jury mast Overhand Portuguese bowline Rigid double splayed loop in the bight Slippery eight Span Spanish bowline Tom fool's Trident Triple bowline Water bowline Yosemite bowline Zeppelin
Running (slip)	Hangman's Running bowline Running highwayman's hitch Tarbuck
Splices & splicing	Eye Fid Marlinspike Rat-tail T Western Union
Stopper	Ashley's stopper Button Double overhand Figure-eight knot Monkey's fist Overhand Stevedore
Whipping	Common Overhand knot with draw-loop Portuguese Sailmaker's West Country

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