The taut-line hitch is used to increase the tension on your tent or dinning fly line when needed. The knot is easily able to slide on the guy line, and is tied in such a way that it creates a jam when the tension is present.

This knot will be used in many of your starts for your lashings along with rowing, small boat sailing, pioneering, and first class rank.

A Sheer Lashing is often used to bind adjacent poles together.