TRAINEE GUIDE - Recruit Training Command - The US Navy

TRAINEE GUIDE A-950-0001
A. Introduction
OUTLINE SHEET 5-02-1
LINE HANDLING LABORATORY 1
In this laboratory, you will learn two basic knots that will commonly be
used during your Navy career. You will be preparing a heaving line to throw
from the ship to a pier, or from a pier back to the ship. You will be
preparing a mooring line for use by coiling, faking, and flemishing. This
lesson discusses the procedures for securing for sea, and the safety
precautions to be followed when securing equipment. In addition, you will
learn the procedures to break out, don, connect, test, operate, and secure a
sound-powered telephone.
B. Enabling Objective(s):
4.4 Tie the square knot and bowline using small stuff.
4.5 Make up and heave a heaving line.
22.12 Explain the relationship between teamwork and line handling to get
the ship underway and moor the ship to the pier.
4.6 As a line handling team member, perform basic line handling
procedures to:
a. Make a line ready for use by coiling, faking, and flemishing down.
b. Take in mooring lines from the pier in preparation for getting the
ship underway.
c. Moor a ship to a pier.
5.5 Perform the procedures used to break out, don, connect, test,
operate, and secure a sound-powered telephone headset.
23.28 Explain the relationship between the Navy Core Values and line
handling to get the ship underway and moor the ship to the pier.
C. Topic Outline
1. Introduction
2. Tie a Square Knot and Bowline
a. ____________--Used to tie two lines of the same size together.
b. Bowline--Used to attach a:
(1) Heaving line to a mooring line.
(2) Line to a pad eye or ring.
3. Make up and Heave a Heaving Line
a. Place the ball approximately 18 inches from your palm, and coil
the remainder of the line in 10-inch coils.
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