How to Tie a Monkey's Fist

One of the hardest or most tedious knots to make properly is the Monkey's Fist. This was originally made by sailors to help weight a rope to throw a greater distance (easier to capture and board a ship, if one was a pirate!)

In Girl Scouts, the knot is made and given to a person that you feel is a mentor, that emulates the meaning of the program. I personally have received four knots in my facilitating career from girls and adults.

I see this knot being helpful for the Scum as we go to pillage castles, throwing the weighted line to the turrets, to climb and breach the mighty walls. I see us able to take to the seas, to pillage and raze all the weaker ships! And of course, It makes a great toy to bonk one another in the bar -- got to do something more than dwarf tossing!